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Record of Bloodshed: Sunagawa (1957)

From Record of Blood: Sunagawa 流血の記録・砂川 (Kamei Fumio, 1956)

On October 12, 1956, 53 surveyors and 1,300 armed police rushed the gathered union and Zen Gaku Ren (the All Japan Federation of Self-Governing Students Associations) members who then formed a scrum to protect themselves. 278 people from both sides were injured. On the 13th, at the protest’s peak, 5,000 workers and Zen...