JAPAN: STUDENTS IN HAND-TO-HAND FIGHTING WITH POLICE IN TOKYO.

Record ID: 375942

  • Title: JAPAN: STUDENTS IN HAND-TO-HAND FIGHTING WITH POLICE IN TOKYO.
  • Date: 23rd June 1968
  • Summary: 1. GTV STUDENTS, PAN TO POLICE. 0.03 2. SV STUDENTS CARRYING SEATS TO BUILD BARRICADE. 0.10 3. SV & CU STUDENTS WHEELING OTHER EQUIPMENT PAST. 0.22 4. GV STUDENTS THROWING STONES, PAN TO POLICE. 0.28 5. SV POLICE ADVANCING BEHIND SHIELDS. PAN TO STUDENTS HURLING STONES. 0.35 6. SV STUDENTS THROWING STONES. 0.38 7. SLV STUDENTS AND POLICE IN HAND-TO-HAND FIGHTING. 0.50 8. SV POLICE DOWN STREET, PAN TO STUDENTS CLOSING GATES AND THROWING STONES. 0.53 9. GTV & SV SQUAD OF POLICE DOWN STREET. 1.04 Initials DHC/VS/PW/PF Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 8th July 1968 13:00
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  • Location: TOKYO, JAPAN
  • Country: Japan
  • Reuters ID: LVAC9QRTNJQ32K9PZ6X3GVP0CO27
  • Story Text: STUDENTS BATTLED RIOT POLICE IN HAND-TO-HAND FIGHTING IN TOKYO ON FRIDAY, AFTER ERECTING A BARRICADE OF DESKS AND CHAIRS IN THE STYLE OF THE FRENCH STUDENT REVOLT. THE STUDENTS ERECTED THEIR BARRICADES IN A STREET NEAR A MAJOR RAILWAY STATION.

    THE STUDENTS WERE PROTESTING AGAINST THE UNITED STATES-JAPAN SECURITY TREATY. OF THE 1,000 TAKING PART, AT LEAST 19 WERE REPORTED INJURED IN THE CLASHES AND 34 WERE ARRESTED.

    SHOUTING "LET'S FOLLOW THE FRENCH STUDENTS' EXAMPLE", THE JAPANESE YOUTHS TEMPORARILY HELD UP RUSH-HOUR TRAFFIC WITH THEIR BARRICADE, BUT BEFORE THEY COULD FULLY ENTRENCH THEMSELVES THE POLICE CHARGED.

    THE STUDENTS RESISTED BY THROWING STONES AND SWINGING POLES, BUT THE POLICE EASILY BROKE THROUGH AND DISPERSED THEM.
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