Occupy Tôkyô. English.

Occupy Tokyo : SEALDs, the forgotten movement / by Anne Gonon, Christian Galan ; translated by Karen Grimwade.

English edition.

Leiden : Brill, [2023]

©2023.

107 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.

Translated from the French.

Japanese youth, like everywhere else, are trying to build a future despite the crises that are shaking their world, the latest being the triple disaster of Fukushima. Often considered to be more focused on a personal or even hedonistic life, they surprised the media when a student movement emerged to criticize the Abe government's security and Self-Defence Forces bills in 2015. The so-called SEALDs movement (Student Emergency Action for Liberal Democracy) was formed with a time lag after Los Indignados or Occupy Wall Street but it shared similar concerns. Understanding the SEALDs experience from the perspective of John Dewey's philosophy allows us to highlight once again the dangers that digital technology poses to individuals, the collective and their values.--Back cover.

English

April 12, 2024

Includes bibliographical references (pages 97-107).