Challenging the empires from within: the transpacific anti-Vietnam War movement in Japan. Issue 2 (3rd July 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Koda, Naoko
• Is Part Of: Sixties. Volume 10:Issue 2(2017)
• Page Start: 182
• Page End: 195
• Publication Date: 2017-07-03
• Subjects: The anti-Vietnam War movement -- US black liberation movements -- Japanese Sixties -- transnational history -- radical politics -- anti-imperialism -- US military bases; Nineteen sixties -- Periodicals; Protest movements -- Periodicals; 909.826
• DOI: 10.1080/17541328.2017.1390649
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1754-1328

Abstract

Abstract: This article explores the transpacific anti-imperial solidarity of American and Japanese anti-Vietnam War activists through a focus on the international anti-Vietnam War conference held in 1969 in Tokyo and antiwar activities engaged in by American and Japanese activists in the areas surrounding US military facilities and bases in Japan. By the late 1960s, the transnational alliances of these activists went beyond protesting the Vietnam War and created spaces in which various critiques of imperialism converged. The author argues that the international solidarity of the 1960s was not merely imaginative but was shaped by experiences of transnational cooperation across national borders.