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Japan in Upheaval The Origins, Dynamics and Political Outcome of the 1960 Anti-US Treaty Protests
By Dagfinn Gatu
Copyright 2022
228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book examines the widespread protests which took place in Japan in 1960 against the renewal of the US-Japan Security Treaty and assesses their far-reaching impact. It emphasizes the scale of the protests, at the climax of which hundreds of thousands of protestors surrounded Japan's National Diet building on nearly a daily basis, and large protests took place in other cities and towns all... Read more
Introduction 1. Treaty Regime: Subaltern Japan 2. Domestic Setting: Portentous Prelude 3. Movement Configuration: Ascendant Cycles 4. Students, Intellectuals: Frontal Contestations 5. Established Left, Newspapers: Orderly Fixation 6. Popular Strata: Dreaded Spectre Conclusion
Biography
Dagfinn Gatu is an Emeritus Professor in Political Science at the Japan Women’s University, Tokyo, Japan.
