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- Social Movements and Political Activism in Contemporary Japan . . .
In the summer of 2015, a group called Students Emergency Action for Liberal Democracy (SEALDs) emerged as a leader of youth protests against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s proposed security legislation to allow the country’s military to participate in foreign conflicts
- 17 - Locating Social Movements in Japan’s Long Twentieth Century
The twenty-four accessible and thought-provoking essays in this volume present innovative new scholarship on Japan’s modern history, including its imperial past and transregional entanglements Drawing on the latest Japanese and English-language scholarship, it highlights Japan’s distinctiveness as an extraordinarily fast-changing place
- Differentiating SEALDs from Freeters, and Precariats: the . . .
The freeter movement against precarity that emerged in 2004 (see Cassegard 2014 for a genealogy of recent youth movements in Japan; see O’Day 2012 for a close ethnography of its political organization and movements) also provides a productive comparison since freeter youth activists also tried to break free from the stigma against public
- The recovery of protest in Japan: from the ‘ice age’ to the . . .
By deliberately setting up spaces outside of the campuses, freeter activists were brought into contact with constituencies that had been left aside by the labour or student movements
- Social Movements and Political Activism in Contemporary Japan . . .
Social Movements and Political Activism in Contemporary Japan: Re-emerging from Invisibility Chiavacci, David and Obinger, Julia (eds ) Routledge, London and New York 2018
- Social Movements and Political Activism in Contemporary Japan
This book explores social movements and political activism in contemporary Japan, arguing that the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident marks a decisive moment, which has led to an unprecedented resurgence in social and protest movements and inaugurated a new era of civic engagement
- Alternative Politics in Contemporary Japan: New Directions in . . .
Each chapter provides a rich description of a particular movement active between 1990 and 2020, showing what the participants wanted to achieve, how they tried to distance themselves from earlier movements, and how they used new social media and other innovations to do so
- The Anti-nuclear Movement and Street Politics in Japan after . . .
As Japan’s political, economic and cultural capital, Tokyo was at the centre of the new wave of anti-nuclear activism The first major demonstrations against nuclear power took place after Fukushima took place in Tokyo’s Kōenji district in April 2011, one month after the disaster
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