2018/01/01 by Kumiko Makino · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics #Race, History, and American Society #South African History and Culture
paper · doi:10.1057/978-1-137-60205-3_12
openalex publication_date 2018/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2025/11/06
The global anti-apartheid solidarity has attracted scholarly attention not only in the context of the political history of South Africa but also as an important historical case for the study of transnational social movements. While the existing literature on the topic tends to focus on Western anti-apartheid movements, this chapter focuses on anti-apartheid activism in Japan. In particular, the author highlights the role of overseas travels that brought about occasional yet direct communications between Japanese activists and leaders of liberation movements as well as anti-apartheid activists from Europe, North America and Asia-Oceania. Such face-to-face contacts often had decisive impacts on Japanese activists’ thoughts and gave them long-lasting motivation to commit to anti-apartheid activism.