Japan's 1968: a collective reaction to rapid economic growth in an age of turmoil
Submitted by Anonymous on Jan 23 2018 16:25
2015 paper written by Oguma Eiji containing lots of interesting historical information about the Japanese radical and student movements of 1968, including historical background and aftermath.
Solidarity for workers' power #2.05
Issue of Solidarity from 16 September 1962 with articles about a Committee of 100 leaflet being distributed in Moscow, the situation in Vauxhall plants, the Japanese Zengakuren and more.
Union busting at American Apparel Japan
Submitted by kot motrozkin on Sep 12 2012 02:23
Management at the Jiyugaoka American Apparel Outlet in Tokyo have unfairly dismissed an employee, and are closing the store in an alleged union busting exercise.
Zengakuren: Japan's revolutionary students
Submitted by sphinx on May 4 2009 07:26
This is an excellent historical introduction to the period of Japanese student radicalism that began after the war in the wake of the increasingly ineffective strategies of the Japanese Communist Party and which culminated in massive social unrest and change around the Japanese school system and society in general.
