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20: 153: 172:) capable of "spontaneously" organizing to form "grassroots" protest movements without guidance from hierarchical "Old Left" political parties and organizations. As a supposedly "nonideological" organization that "anyone can join," Beheiren grew out of, and was modeled after, the similar "Voiceless Voices Society" ( 233:
Beheiren continued its activities until the U.S. announced its withdrawal from South Vietnam in 1974. A final closing ceremony was held in Tokyo on January 26, 1974. In a farewell address, Tsurumi Shunsuke told an audience of around 1,000 activists that although Beheiren was ending, "another day I
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stock so that they could address shareholders meetings about the company's support for the American war effort. The group also assisted American soldiers who were publishing and distributing underground papers and pamphlets in Japan. They helped the
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Oda traveled extensively around Japan and the world to promote national and international movements against the Vietnam War. In particular, he pressed Japanese New Left activists to overcome their consciousness as helpless "victims"
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to become the new group's official spokesperson. Oda agreed, and on April 24, Beheiren was officially established as an offshoot of the existing Voiceless Voices Society.
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approached Tsurumi about the possibility of creating a new organization along the lines of the Voiceless Voices to protest against Japan's involvement in the
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Beheiren claims to have helped 20 U.S. soldiers to desert, in some cases providing them with false passports and other paperwork and helping them escape to
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think Beheiren—although not as Beheiren—will want to make an appearance once again. Beheiren is dissolved. Long live Beheiren!"
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Takata, Kei (2017). "Escaping through the networks of trust: The US deserter support movement in the Japanese Global Sixties".
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In 1970, Beheiren took a leading role in organizing large-scale protests against the automatic renewal of the
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Making Japanese citizens : civil society and the mythology of the Shimin in postwar Japan
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Japan Revolutionary Communist League, National Committee (Central Core Faction)
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Japan Revolutionary Communist League (Revolutionary Marxist Faction)
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Bombing of the Fusetsu no Gunzo and Institute of Northern Cultures
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desert and seek asylum in Sweden in 1967 and later helped
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simply opted to allow the treaty to continue as is.
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Beheiren was organized with the assistance of the "
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Index


New Left
United States
Vietnam War
Sweden
Soviet Union
shareholder activism
Mitsubishi
Intrepid Four
Terry Whitmore
Makoto Oda
Yuichi Yoshikawa
Michitoshi Takabatake
Osamu Kuno
Amon Miyamoto
Ichiyo Muto
Shinobu Yoshioka
Takeshi Kaiko
Yoshiyuki Tsurumi
Shunsuke Tsurumi

Science of Thought
Shunsuke Tsurumi
1960 Anpo protests
U.S.-Japan Security Treaty
Michitoshi Takabatake
Vietnam War
Makoto Oda
World War II
U.S.-Japan Security Treaty

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