Occupy Tokyo: SEALDs, the Forgotten Movement

Anne Gonon, Ph.D. (1991), Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris), is a professor of social sciences at Dôshisha University (Kyoto, Japan). Her work lies at the interface of social and ethical issues, with a particular interest in gender and disaster in contemporary Japan, including (with C. Numata and K. Ochiai, eds) Seikatsu keishiki – kea toshiteno rinri (Forms of Life – Ethics as Care) (Kisazu 2021).Christian Galan, Ph.D. (1997), Inalco (Paris), is a professor at the Toulouse-Jean Jaurès University and a researcher at the French Institute for Research on East Asia (Inalco/Paris-Cité University/CNRS). He is a specialist in the current Japanese educational system and in the history of education in Japan. His research also focuses on childhood and youth in modern and contemporary Japan, including (with P. Heinrich, eds), Being Young in Super-Aging Japan (Routledge, 2018).

• A Note on Japanese TermsAbstractKeywordsIntroduction: SEALDs in the Protest Movement LandscapePart 1: The Wheels Come Off1 Social Upheaval2 Japanese Youth and the CrisisPart 2: The SEALDs Movement3 Influential Factors4 Learning by Doing5 SEALDs in the Japanese Political LandscapeConclusion: What Next after SEALDs? Appendix 1: Unusual Backgrounds of the First Students to Join SEALDsAppendix 2: Timeline of the SEALDs MovementAppendix 3: The SEALDs ManifestoBibliography