The Expanding “Student Rebellion"

Title: The Expanding “Student Rebellion"

Photographer(s): Asahi Shimbun and various photographers

Writer(s):

Designer(s): Kazuo Okawa

Publisher(s): Asahi Shimbunsha, Tokyo, Japan

Year: 1969

Print run:

Language(s): Japanese

Pages: 98

Size: 25,5 x 33,5 cm

Binding: Softcover

Edition:

Print: Printed in Japan

Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: Japan,1968-1969

ISBN:

This magazine is the 7 February 1969 issue of Asahi Graph, a special publication on the ‘Expanding Student Rebellion’. Asahi Graph was one of Japan's first weekly photo magazines, launched by The Asahi Shimbun Company on 25 January 1923. It was a long-running publication, continuing for approximately 77 years until the end of its regular publication with the 13 October 2000 issue. Its distinctive feature was ‘visual daily/visualization of the news,’ in which photographs and illustrations occupied a significant portion of the pages. Combining text and photos, it visually documented the turbulent changes of modern and contemporary Japan—covering events, customs, culture, social trends, war, postwar reconstruction, high economic development, and the bubble era—serving as a record of art, journalism, and society, and offering many readers the feeling of “seeing the scene”. This issue is a valuable volume introducing the “student revolts” that broke out at universities across the country from the mid-1960s onwards, with both black-and-white and colour photographs. It contains even more photographic illustrations than typical issues.