Activist - Protest - Riot - Strikes
Feb. 26 Riots In Tokyo Over Okinawa Reversion. Japanese radical students, protesting against the Japan-U.S. Okinawa reversion agreement, used guerilla tactics, and Molotov cocktails in a riot in the Shibuya district of Tokyo. One policeman was killed after he was set ablaze by a Molotov cocktail and beaten with steel pipes by the rioters. Police arrested 312 students, 61 of them coeds. Over 3, 000 riot police armed with tear-gas guns, and Roman shields fought the students. In all 12, 000 policemen were mobilized to control key sites in Tokyo in an effort to control mobs. Photo:- Police in Tokyo carrying Roman gladiator's shields start off in a Banzai charge against the students in Shibuya, a popular district of the city
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