Tuesday, November 5,' 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Verge Seven Tuesday, November 5, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Poac Seven I I UNREST PLAGUES JAPAN: Rampaging students battle for reform TOKYO (MP-Dressed in steel large; professors, though fre- helmets, carrying baskets of rocks quently incompetent, cannot be and bludgeons, they are spoiling removed, and tuition is rising/an- for a fight. They usually get it. nually. Extremist students in more than Bighess-and maladministration 50 Japanese universities have -were the sparks that touched' been on a rampage for months. off the flames at the privately run they have beaten professors, Nihon Daigaku, a superuniversity locked in school presidents, battled with 80,000 students. police and inflicted millions of Student movements long had dollars indamage. been banned on campus. But when They observedInternational A ntiwar DaMy Monday by staging a small war of their own. In Tokyo, they wrecked the busy Shlnjuku rail hub, smash- ing windows, setting fire to buses and buildings, ripping out train signals, tearing up track ties. Like pike-carrying foot soldiers of medieval armies, they met po- lice--similarly attired in heavy protective clothing and carrying nets--in head-on clashes. When the smoke and turmoil subsided, 340 police and students had been injured---some seriously-and 928 had been arrested. At least a million commuters had to walk or take other means of transportation as two of To- kyo's main rail lines were para- lyzed the next morning. The harassed Tokyo metropo- itan police board invoked the riot act for the first time in 16 years; under. it, ringleaders can get up to 10 years in prison. In the past 10 months, about 4000 demonstrating students have been arrested throughout the country. They include members of 4t the national Zengakuren student association, so far out they con- temptuously dismiss Mao Tse- tung as too namby pamby. Other thousands come from institutions considered so Tconservative no one bothered organizing them politic- ally.J The Antiwar Day demonstrators were led by Zengakuren extre- mists who oppose the Vietnam war, want V..S. forces to get out of Japan, and regard Primq Min- ister Eisaku Sato's Liberal Dem- ocratic government as reactionary. They get little public support and almost none from more mod- erate but less vocal students who are a majority of Japan's 1.5 mnil- lion undergraduates. Most of Japan's student mal- contents are aroused by problems closer to home' 4 Some want to be consulted on the elections of university presi- dents; others insist on running student association buildings, still others demand "democratization'! of the university administration. There is also a general student feeling that somehow they are not getting' what they should out of a university career. Classes are too on April 15 the Tokyo tax admin- istration disclosed that it had spent 2 billion yen-$5,555,555- between 1963 and 1967 in secret extra payments to directors and professors, the students exploded. Why, they asked, hadn't rome- thing been done to improve their own classroom conditions? Some classes had as many as 4,000 students, so unwieldy many, stayed away. There were more part-time lecturers than full-time professors and instructors com- bined. In a 12-hour confrontation with 12,000 undergraduates Oct. 1, Chancellor Jujiro Furata and the board of directors promised to make sweeping concessions, cean up the administration and, to cap it all, resign in a group. But the next day Furata and directors announced they had withdrawn their resignations. This set the stage for prolongation of the six-month-old dispute. Stu- dent political activists from the Zengakuren moved in to school the inexperienced "revolutionaries" in violent tactics. Their first step was to call Furata a leader of "Japan- ese imperialists." - A similarly nonpolitical issue aroused the students of prestigious Tokyo University, which has pro- duced most of Japan's prime min- isters. The tempest broke ii an unlikely area: the medical depart- ment, to rebellion against a new law which required young doctors to undergo a two-year internship at low monthly salaries.. The medical students went on strike but got little sympathy from1 fellow students. Then President Kazuo Ikichi called in riot police to oust a group occupying the ad- ministration offices, and the en- tire student body rallied behind the medical students. Academic activities ground to a halt for the first time in the uni- versity's 91-year history Oct. 12 when the law faculty joined nine others already on strike. The student strike craze reach- ed as unlikely a place as Keio University, long regarded as a stronghold of the pro-American wealthy class. 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