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The New Labor Movement in Japan
Matsumoto, Shigeharu | March 25, 1925 issue

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Japan became a full-fledged "modern state" after the Chino-Japanese War of 1895. Industrialism was firmly established and had brought about glaring social evils as well as an enormous increase in productivity. The struggle between the Government and the Socialists of the Left reached its height when the great Socialist trial in 1910 put an end to progressive agitation. The history of the organized labor movement in Japan began in 1909 when Bunji Suzuki, with fifteen workers, started a friendly society for cooperative enterprise. This was the origin of the Federation of Labor of Japan, which is now the strongest single union with 30,000 members.

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LABOR unions; LABOR movement; JAPAN -- Economic conditions; JAPAN -- History -- 1912-1945; CHINA -- Military relations; JAPAN -- Military relations; JAPAN; CHINA
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