Student protests 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.

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

protests in Japan by students belonging to the Japanese New Left

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

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1948 protests in Japan

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

thumb|Demonstration near the National Diet Building, March 2016 SEALDs, short for , was a student activist organisation in Japan that organised protests against the ruling coalition headed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2015 and 2016. Its focus was on the Legislation for Peace and Security enacted in 2015 that allow the Japanese Self-Defense Force to be deployed overseas in certain conditions.

Japanese Marxist student organization