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Haunting questions of youth activism in Japan

Haunting questions of youth activism in Japan

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Jan 24, 2016
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Not since the 1960 ANPO demonstrations have so many students demonstrated. Sixty thousand SEALDs (‘Students Emergency Action for a Liberal Democracy’) did so outside the Diet last August as part of wider protests that have taken place in Tokyo and Okinawa in recent years.

The SEALDs are enraged with the Prime Minister for riding roughshod over constituti…

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