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Riot police raid Kyoto University after 3 activists arrested

CRIME NOV. 14, 2014 - 06:45AM JST ( 83 )
Riot police raid Kyoto University after 3 activists arrested
Japanese riot police raid a dormitory at Kyoto University on Thursday.
AFP
TOKYO —
Scores of fully-clad riot police raided a dormitory at a leading Japanese university Thursday, reports said, in an apparently heavy-handed response to a left-wing movement that may involve students.

Television footage showed ranks of helmeted officers carrying shields and wearing protective clothing converging on the dormitory at the prestigious Kyoto University, backed up by plain-clothed officers.

The operation was being carried out by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police, Jiji Press news agency and the private Nippon Television network said, in connection with the arrest earlier this month of three leftist activists, including at least one Kyoto University student.

The three were arrested on suspicion of obstructing public officials and accused of using violence against riot police officers on the sidelines of a labor rally in Tokyo held in Nov 2, they said.

Footage of Thursday’s raid showed no evidence of any violence, with Jiji Press reporting riot police were brought in to “prevent confusion”.

Student radicalism in Japan reached its peak in the 1960s and 1970s, when violent activists demonstrated against Japan’s military alliance with the United States, the Vietnam War, and the construction of Narita international airport outside of Tokyo.

But the movement gradually receded as Japan grew wealthier. The few remaining activists are very much a fringe force, but the government’s unpopular push to restart nuclear reactors and expand the role of the military has provided the activists with renewed impetus.

Japanese police regularly turn out in force for protests, even those involving a small number of often-elderly participants.

Kyoto University, in the ancient Japanese capital, is one of the nation’s best schools.

Police raid Kyoto University dorm after student arrests in Tokyo

http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20141114p2g00m0dm034000c.html

KYOTO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo police raided a Kyoto University dormitory in the city of Kyoto on Thursday in connection with an incident in which three people allegedly attacked riot police officers at a demonstration in Tokyo earlier this month.

According to police officials handling public security affairs and investigative sources, the three, who were arrested on Nov. 2 on suspicion of obstructing officers in the performance of their duties, are leftist activists, and two of them are Kyoto University students who live in the "Kumano Dorm."

The police raid occurred nine days after students caught a plain-clothes officer entering university premises without permission in order to monitor a rally held in protest against the arrests in Tokyo.

The university and local police have an understanding that the school must be notified before police officers enter the campus. After the Nov. 4 incident, the university said it was regrettable that the policeman entered without prior notification.

Just before the raid on Thursday, a scuffle erupted near the entrance of the dorm between police officers and students who tried to stop the raid and demanded that they see a court-issued search warrant. Dozens of students erected a barricade to block the officers from entering the dorm.

The search was conducted in the presence of university officials after the police notified the university, according to the police. Tokyo police say the raid had nothing to do with the earlier incident involving the local officer.

November 14, 2014(Mainichi Japan)


Japanese Police in Full Riot Gear Raid Kyoto University Dormitory
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/11/14/japanese-police-in-full-riot-gear-raid-kyoto-university-dormitory/
Posted 14 November 2014 18:10 GMT

Dozens of riot police officers clad in helmets, shields and protective gear supported plainclothes detectives as they searched a Kyoto University dormitory for evidence on November 13 after three students allegedly obstructed officers during a protest in Tokyo.

The three had been arrested earlier in the month and were accused of using violence against riot police on the sidelines of a labor rally in Tokyo on November 2. The raid on the Kyoto University dormitory presumably was intended to gather evidence against them.


The police look just like the stormtroopers from Star Wars. It's disgusting that we're living in a police state like this. @Darkpbs77: @uminohana @tart_k From here on in we're no longer a constitutional democracy, but like you have said, we're going to be seeing more raids and so on conducted by these thugs.
The raid on the Kyoto dormitory received coverage in the Japanese media, including on this popular morning current affairs program (the clip also includes some historical background on student radicals in Japan, including violent demonstrations against the development of Narita Airport in the mid-80′s). The segment is titled “Breaking news: police search Kyoto University's Kumaya Dormitory”:


Riot police are often brought in to provide crowd control during demonstrations in Japan. However, generally speaking Japan's universities have largely been free from radical politics for at least 30 years, so the raid on the Kyoto dormitory is unusual.

The raid is part of an ongoing conflict between far-left Marxist group Kakukyōdō (usually known as Chūkaku-ha) and police. This far-left radical student group rose to prominence in Japan in the late 1960s, 70s and 80s, when student protesters clashed with Japanese police, torching universities and disrupting major construction projects.

Twenty years of a faltering economy plus the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011 and the ascendancy of Japan's hawkish right wing in recent years have breathed new life into Japan's protest movement. For example, take a look at this tweet from June 14, 2014:


RT @Thoton: #Japan: Anti-government demonstrations held in #Tokyo, #Kyoto protesting against the Abe government's proposed changes to the constitution
Two of the students arrested were Kyoto University students, and the third has a possible connection to unofficial student group Bunka Renmei, which has clashed with Hosei University for six years. Hosei authorities and a group of students are locked in a poisonous struggle that has turned that campus into something resembling a low-security prison.

The police search of the dormitory occurred nine days after students caught a plainclothes officer entering a Kyoto University dormitory without permission in order to monitor a rally held at the university in protest against the arrests.

Kyoto University is one of Japan's leading universities, and is home to elite researchers, scientists, and a long line of Nobel Prize winners. Faculty and students at the national university located in the heart of Kyoto do have a reputation for feistiness and independence.

As well, student dormitories and student life at Japanese universities can often be chaotic and anarchic.

Another Kyoto University dormitory that was first built in 1913 still houses student squatters for the ultra low price of ¥2,500 (about US$21) a month.

While the raid has generated a lot of interest in traditional and social media, at the end of the day the students at Kyoto University are finding a way to cope:

http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20141119p2a00m0na007000c.html
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stated on a television program that he would step down as premier if the new state secrets law, set to go into effect Dec. 10, were to prevent the general public from exercising its freedom of expression.

"Operatives, terrorists and spies are subject (to the law), and it does not concern the general Japanese public," Abe said on a Tokyo Broadcasting System program Nov. 18. "For example, if (freedom of expression is violated and) people are prevented from making movies, I am prepared to step down as prime minister immediately. If there are any cases of journalistic reporting being suppressed, I will resign."

Abe announced the same day that he will dissolve the lower house and call for general election early next month.

"We'd like the state secrets law to be the subject of active debate (in the upcoming general election)," Abe said. "We will accept any challenges."

November 19, 2014(Mainichi Japan)

Asahi Shibun Article On Kyoto Police Raid
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