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Japan's Police Terror
Roth, Andrew | September 15, 1945 issue

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The article focuses on Japan's Gestapo-like police, which will have a key role in the oligarchy's efforts to prevent the emergence of any authentic democratic and anti-fascist elements in Japan. In the 1920's this police played an even more nefarious role. After World War I a broad movement developed which favored universal suffrage, democratic government and freedom of speech, press and assembly. A wave of illegal strikes proclaimed the demands of industrial workers for higher wages, legal trade unionism, the right to strike and social security. These movements were strong enough to force concessions from the oligarchy. But each concession was virtually nullified by increased police repression.

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POLICE -- Attitudes; CRIMINAL justice, Administration of; DEMOCRACY; SOCIAL security; SOCIAL movements; JAPAN
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