# Japanese New Left

> Leftist factions that criticized the Japanese Communist Party's shift away from sole advocacy of violent revolution in July 1955 and continued to pursue the establishment of a communist society through violent means.

**Wikidata**: [Q252141](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q252141)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Left_in_Japan)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/japanese-new-left


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013