Michiko Kanba | |
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樺 美智子 | |
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| Born | November 8, 1937 Tokyo, Japan |
| Died | June 15, 1960 (aged 22) South Gate of the National Diet Building |
| Cause of death | Police clash |
| Known for | The Smile Nobody Knows |
| Father | Toshio Kanba |
Michiko Kanba (樺 美智子, Kanba Michiko, November 8, 1937 – June 15, 1960) was a Japanese communist, University of Tokyo undergraduate, and a Zengakuren activist. She died in clashes between demonstrators and police at the South Gate of the National Diet Building in central Tokyo at the climax of the 1960 Anpo Protests against the US-Japan Security Treaty.[1]
- ^ Kapur, Nick (2018). Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 30. ISBN 9780674988484.