Asahi Shimbun - The Expanding “Student Revolt” - 1969

The Expanding “Student Revolt”

Asahi Shimbun
Asahi Shimbun Company/1969/Japanese/258*335*5

This magazine is the February 7, 1969 issue of Asahi Graph, a special feature on the “Expanding Student Rebellion.” Asahi Graph was one of Japan's earliest weekly photo magazines, launched by The Asahi Shimbun Company on January 25, 1923. It was a long-running publication, continuing for approximately 77 years until its regular publication ended with the October 13, 2000 issue. Its defining feature was the “visual newspaper/visualization of reporting,” where photographs and illustrations occupied a significant portion of the pages. Combining text and photos, it visually documented the turbulent changes in modern to contemporary Japan—covering events, customs, culture, social trends, war, postwar reconstruction, high economic growth, and the bubble era—serving as a record of art, journalism, and society, and giving many readers the sensation of “seeing the scene.” This issue is a valuable volume introducing the “student revolts” that erupted at universities nationwide from the mid-1960s onward, featuring both monochrome and color photographs. It contains an even greater number of photographic illustrations than typical issues.