Zengakuren
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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.
Key facts
- Organization.name
- Zengakuren
- Organization.full_name
- All-Japan Federation of Student Self-Government Associations
- Organization.native_name
- 全日本学生自治会総連合
- Organization.native_name_lang
- ja
- Organization.key_people
- Teruo Takei (first chairman)
- Organization.affiliations
- Japan Communist Party (1949–1960)Japanese New Left (1960–present)
- Organization.dissolved
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- Organization.defunct
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- Organization.type
- Nationwide student federation
- Organization.location_country
- Japan
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- Instance of
- organization
- Country
- Japan
- Image
- Kanda Quartier latin19680621.jpg
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- inception
- 1948-07-06
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- Zengakuren
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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.
==History==
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