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Japanese Students Taught Lesson in State Repression

On June 24, about 140 police officers, including the riot police unit, conducted a raid on a student dormitory at Kyoto University, ostensibly to investigate an individual who had filled out an application for a driver’s license extension with a false address.

Red-Baiting in 2016

A recent attempt by the Liberal Democratic Party to brand the Japan Communist Party as violent has sparked a new debate on the political history of Japan, but it seems to be primarily a cynical political ploy.