Michiko Kanba

Michiko Kanba
樺 美智子
Born(1937-11-08)November 8, 1937
Tokyo, Japan
DiedJune 15, 1960(1960-06-15) (aged 22)
South Gate of the National Diet Building
Cause of deathPolice clash
Known forThe Smile Nobody Knows
Parent

Michiko Kanba (樺 美智子, Kanba Michiko, November 8, 1937 – June 15, 1960) was a Japanese communist, University of Tokyo undergraduate, and a Zengakuren activist. She died in clashes between demonstrators and police at the South Gate of the National Diet Building in central Tokyo at the climax of the 1960 Anpo Protests against the US-Japan Security Treaty.[1]

  1. ^ Kapur, Nick (2018). Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 30. ISBN 9780674988484.

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