Occupy Tokyo / / Anne Gonon, Christian Galan.

• Superior document: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences Series
• VerfasserIn: Gonon, Anne,
• TeilnehmendeR: Galan, Christian.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Brill,, [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (117 pages)

A political, anthropological and societal analysis of the 2015-2016 spontaneous Japanese youth movement SEALDs, the Student Emergency Action for Liberal Democracy.

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Contents
• A Note on Japanese Terms
• Abstract
• Keywords
• Introduction: SEALDs in the Protest Movement Landscape
• Part 1: The Wheels Come Off
• 1 Social Upheaval
• 1.1 Financial Crisis
• 1.2 Political Crisis
• 1.3 Controversial Role of the Japan Self-Defence Forces
• 2 Japanese Youth and the Crisis
• 2.1 An Increasingly Uncertain Future
• 2.2 University, and Then What?
• 2.3 Attaining Adulthood: an Impossible Dream?
• 2.4 Generational Issues
• 2.5 From Political Apathy to Political Engagement
• Part 2: The SEALDs Movement
• 3 Influential Factors
• 3.1 The Shock of Fukushima
• 3.2 Intellectuals Take a Stand
• 4 Learning by Doing
• 4.1 Understanding SEALDs as Inquiry
• 4.2 Digital Technology and the Group Dynamic
• 4.3 Absence of Public Space(s)
• 5 SEALDs in the Japanese Political Landscape
• 5.1 Mode of Action
• 5.2 SEALDs' List of Demands
• 5.3 Defining the Movement
• 5.4 Democracy as a Way of Life
• Conclusion: What Next after SEALDs?
• Citizenship Education and Individual Experience
• Japanese Democracy in Review
• Looking to the Future
• Appendix 1: Unusual Backgrounds of the First Students to Join SEALDs
• Appendix 2: Timeline of the SEALDs Movement
• Appendix 3: the SEALDs Manifesto
• Bibliography.