Review: Coed Revolution: The Female Student in the Japanese New Left
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Female University of Tokyo student activists on the march. They bear with them “Gewalt” staves (ゲバルト棒). 1969.
Activists bear the image of the deceased Kanba Michiko. Kanba perished during a 1960 clash between anti-US-Japan Security Treaty activists and Japanese police. Her death made her a martyr, although Coed Revolution details how her posthumous popular image as a virgin sacrifice for democracy eschewed her own views on politics.
A 1960s poster for a student festival at the University of Tokyo. The activists who created the poster invoke the image of a martial Yakuza outlaw, including the line “to where shall Male Tokyo Univesity go?”
Shigenobu Fusako, leader of the international terrorist group the Japanese Red Army. This picture shows Shigenobu while operating in Lebanon alongside the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. 
