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Japanese anarchists in the 1960s

“The Zengakuren student group, which formed in the late 1940s as a far-left league of anarchist student activists, organized many of the protests. Of central concern to the Zengakuren was American military presence in the region, and many of the most violent clashes occurred in demonstrations against the Vietnam War. The Zengakuren’s vigilance exposed a vein of lingering dissent in booming postwar Japan, where material comforts and economic stability had placated many others into political apathy.”