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1960-Michiko Kanba (樺美智子)
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.
Kanba's death was widely covered at the time, and is seen as a symbol of the 1960 mass protests against the revised Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security Between the United States and Japan. Historian Nick Kapur argues that nationwide shock at Kanba's death helped force the resignation of Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi and the cancellation of a planned visit to Japan by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower.[8] Kapur says Kanba's death was viewed as a "triple tragedy," first because she was so young, second because she was a student at Japan's most elite university, and third, because she was a woman, at a time when it was still novel for women to participate on the front lines of street protests.
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‘Cease-fire’ between protestors and riot police for the memorial service for Michiko Kanba, a student activist killed in 1960 during the protests against US-Japan security treaty . Hibiya Park, Tokyo, June 15, 1969.
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On this day, 15 June 1960 22-year-old student Michiko Kanba was killed by police during a demonstration at the Diet building in Tokyo. She was one of hundreds of thousands of people protesting every day at the terms of the Japan-US security treaty which would permanently station American troops in the country. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1146655075519641/?type=3
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'Cease-fire' between protestors and riot police for the memorial service for Michiko Kanba, a student activist killed in 1960 during the protests against US-Japan security treaty (ANPO). Hibiya Park, Tokyo, June 15, 1969.[1500x1005] Check this blog!
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Michiko Kanba, a 22-year-old student at the University of Tokyo, was one of the protesters who gathered in front of the Diet on June 15, 1960. The thousands of protesters clashed with riot police trying to prevent the Diet being stormed. Kanba was crushed amid the confusion and killed.
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1960-Anpo protests "June 15th Incident"
On June 15, as part of the anti-Treaty coalition's 24th united action, hundreds of thousands of protestors marched on the National Diet in Tokyo. In the late afternoon, the protestors were attacked by right-wing ultranationalist counter-protestors, who rammed them with trucks and attacked them with wooden staves spiked with nails, causing dozens of injuries from moderate to severe, including several hospitalizations.
Just a few minutes later, radical left-wing activists from the nationwide student federation Zengakuren smashed their way into the Diet compound itself, precipitating a long battle with police,[1] who beat the unarmed students bloody with their batons in front of mass media reporters and television cameras.[32] The police finally succeeded in clearing the Diet compound after 1 a.m., but in the struggle, a young female Tokyo University student and Zengakuren member named Michiko Kanba was killed.
#Jun.15.1960#Anpo protests#June 15th Incident#安保闘争#Japanese Houses of Parliament#60年安保#history today
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