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...

establishment of Zengakuren (the "All-Japan Federation of Student Self-Government Associations") that same year. However at least initially, Zengakuren remained...

among students led to the creation of the Zengakuren, a socialist student organization formed in 1948. Zengakuren grew out of a 1947–48 protest against an...

Party (JCP), along with a number of student activists from the Nationwide Zengakuren student federation, formed the Revolutionary Communist League (RCL), usually...

established in December 1958 as a radical splinter group within the nationwide Zengakuren student federation. The organization took its name from the original Communist...

Sanrizuka Struggle against the construction of Narita Airport. In 1960, the Zengakuren nationwide student federation dissolved in a series of schisms arising...

drama film directed by Nagisa Ōshima. It deals with the contemporary Zengakuren opposition but also evokes the 1950 protests against the Anpo treaty;...

and thus, supported by radical student activists from the nationwide Zengakuren student federation and Zainichi Korean activist groups, the JCP sought...

Waseda University in Tokyo. When radical Marxist student activists from Zengakuren attempted to shout him down, he calmly invited one of them on stage and...

later, radical left-wing activists from the nationwide student federation Zengakuren smashed their way into the Diet compound itself, precipitating a long...