Word: zengakuren
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...kimono-clad women sedately clutching small U.S. and Japanese flags. Near by stood several thousand right-wing toughs of the Great Japan Patriotic Party waving huge Rising Sun banners and shouting nationalist slogans. But the majority of the crowd was made up of Sohyo labor unionists and Zengakuren students carrying signs that read HAGERTY GO TO THE HELL, WE DISLIKE IKE, IKE AND U-2 NOT TO JAPAN. The signs were in English, and clearly intended for U.S. photographers and, eventually, the U.S. public...
...Japanese people do not have much to do with Tokyo's trained mobs. The mobs' spearhead is the Zengakuren students' federation which claims to represent half of Japan's 677,000 undergraduates. Since the war, Zengakuren has been dominated by Communists. But after a particularly obstreperous show of May Day violence brought the wrath of the Japanese public down on their heads, the Reds lost their nerve and announced that in the future they would be "lovable." This concession outraged many Zengakuren hotheads who labeled the Communists "sissified," and voted into the top leadership a toughminded...
...government." They companionably join Communists in a bewildering array of organizations with names like Youth and Student Struggle Council, Committee for Freedom of Expression, National Conference for Reopening of Japan-China Relations. They provide the intellectual leadership for such huge outfits as Nikkyoso, the 600,000-strong teachers union; Zengakuren, a nationwide student pressure group; and, most important of all, the ultra-left-wing labor union federation called Sohyo (3^ million members), which has backed many of the recent demonstrations...
...wide, tree-lined boulevard leading to the Diet, some 6,000 fanatical students of the Zengakuren federation (who are so militant they consider Communists "sissified") surged against a barricade of police trucks drawn up before the Diet. In a wild melee of flying fists and thumping night sticks the police drove them back time and again. As darkness fell, the rioters were beaten at a cost of 18 seriously injured and 100 with minor bumps and bruises...