New Left in Japan

Zengakuren is a league of university student associations founded in 1948 in Japan. The word is an abridgement of which literally means "All-Japan Federation of Student Self-Government Associations." Notable for organizing protests and marches, Zengakuren has been involved in Japan's anti-Red Purge movement, the anti-military base movement, the Anpo protests against the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty, the 1968–1969 Japanese university protests, and the struggle against the construction of Narita Airport.

Japanese author, progressive intellectual, and civic activist (1932-2007)

Opposition Movement to The Amendment of The United States-Japan (or Japan-United States) Security Treaty in 1960 and 1970 Japan

Japanese poet and Philosopher (1924–2012)

alternative manga magazine

loose movement in Japanese cinema that emerged in the late 1950s

militant organization that operated in Japan (1971–1972)

Japanese activist (1945–2011)

1972–1975 terrorist organization

protests in Japan by students belonging to the Japanese New Left

Japanese civil conflict over the construction of Narita Airport (1966-present)

was a radical ideology promoted by a faction of the Japanese New Left that advocated for the destruction of the nation of Japan. The ideology was first conceived by Katsuhisa Ōmori, a member of the New Left, in the 1970s. Extending from anti-Japanese sentiments and viewpoints such as the Ainu Revolution Theory, it claimed that "the nation called Japan and the entire Japanese race should be extinguished from the face of the earth". Anti-Japaneseism makes claims that go far back in history, denying the founding of Japan and the history of the Japanese people. It advocated for the extermination o

Japanese writer

Leftist factions that criticized the Japanese Communist Party's shift away from sole advocacy of violent revolution in July 1955 and continued to pursue the establishment of a communist society through violent means.

politician activist (1930-2009)

Japanese far-left militant group

thumb|Beheiren at a demonstration in Kyoto, 1971 Beheiren (; short for Betonamu ni Heiwa o! Shimin Rengo (), "The Citizen's League for Peace in Vietnam") was an antiwar Japanese "New Left" activist group that existed from 1965 to 1974 which protested Japanese assistance to the United States during the Vietnam War.

Japanese philosopher (1927–2006)

2007 film by Kōji Wakamatsu

political party in Japan

Japanese Marxist student organization

1968 riot in Japan

Japanese feminist and writer (1943-2024)

thumb|A Japanese student protest in June 1968 thumb|A Zenkyōtō helmet The , commonly known as the , were Japanese student organizations consisting of anti-government, anti-Japanese Communist Party leftist and non-sectarian radicals. The Zenkyōtō were formed to organize students during the 1968–69 Japanese university protests. Unlike other student movement organizations, graduate students and young teachers were allowed to participate. Active in the late 1960s, Zenkyōtō was the driving force behind clashes between Japanese students and the police. Zenkyōtō groups were driven by alienation and a

communist militant organization (1968-1971)

Japanese radical leftist and terrorist (1944–1973)

theory in Japanese left-wing thought

political party in Japan

Japanese Marxist student organization