Japan Federation of Newspaper Workers' Unions

The Japan Federation of Newspaper Workers' Unions (Japanese: 日本新聞労働組合連合), better known by its Japanese abbreviation Shinbun Rōren, is a trade union representing newspaper journalists in Japan.^[1]

Shinbun Rōren was founded on 30 June 1950.^{[2][page needed]} It was affiliated with the General Council of Trade Unions of Japan (Sōhyō), and by 1958 it had 27,056 members.^{[3][page needed]}. In 1960, Shinbun Rōren played an active role in the massive Anpo protests against renewal of the US-Japan Security Treaty, with journalists reporting on the protests as part of their job, and then joining the protests after they got off of work.^[4] By 1970, membership had grown to 38,057^{[5][page needed]} and reached 41,961 by 1985.^{[2][page needed]}

In 1989, Sōhyō merged into the RENGO trade federation, but Shinbun Rōren decided instead to become independent.^{[2][page needed]} As of 2019, it had 21,876 members.^[6]

• Kapur, Nick (2018). Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674984424.

• Official website