Zengakuren

Zengakuren
All-Japan Federation of Student Self-Government Associations
全日本学生自治会総連合
EstablishedJuly 6, 1948; 76 years ago (1948-07-06)
TypeNationwide student federation
Location
Key people
Teruo Takei (first chairman)
AffiliationsJapan Communist Party (1949–1960)
Japanese New Left (1960–present)

Zengakuren is a league of university student associations founded in 1948 in Japan. The word Zengakuren (全学連) is an abridgement of Zen Nihon Gakusei Jichikai Sō Rengō (全日本学生自治会総連合) which literally means "All-Japan Federation of Student Self-Government Associations."[1] 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.

  1. ^ Kapur 2018, p. 15.