Michiko Kaba (born November 8, 1937, died June 15, 1960) was a student activist, a third-year female student at the University of Tokyo who died in the Japan-U.S. Security (Anpo) Struggle. Michiko Kaba, who became seriously ill on June 15, 1960 during the Security Treaty Struggle, was carried out of the Diet premises in the rain and escorted away. On the day of her death, she was wearing a pale cream cardigan, white blouse, and dark blue slacks. After she was pronounced dead at the police hospital where she was taken, the students held a silent vigil for Michiko Kaba's death inside the Diet building.
Students, workers, and citizens surrounded the Diet building in ten or twenty layers, demanding opposition to the Security Treaty and the resignation of the Kishi Cabinet, and in a demonstration on June 15, 1960, the mainstream faction of the All-Japan Federation of Student Self-Defense Associations rushed into the Diet from the south gate of the House of Representatives. He died at the age of 22 when he clashed with police forces in the process. An autopsy at the police hospital indicated that the cause of death was chest compression and internal bleeding of the head. The police claimed that the crushing death was caused by Michiko Kaba's fall. They concluded that she died of respiratory distress due to compression of the chest and abdomen caused by being trapped under the collapsed people after the protesters rushed into the parliament premises. The results of the examination were not disclosed to the family of the deceased, and the students claimed that the death was caused by an assault by riot police.
In 1957, he entered the Department of Japanese History in the Faculty of Letters at the University of Tokyo's second (now third) class. He participated in the Sunagawa Struggle against the expansion of the U.S. military base at Tachikawa in a demonstration against British hydrogen bomb tests. He belonged to the History Study Group and aimed to explore the principles that drive history. He became the vice chairman of the autonomy committee of the Faculty of Letters, University of Tokyo. He joined the Japan Communist Party in preparation for the looming security struggle. In December 1958, he joined the Vanguard Party and the Communist League, which was formed by student members of the Communist Party who broke away from the party to pursue a more radical ideology and policy. As a mainstream member of the All-Japan Federation of Student's Associations, he fought a militant struggle, including being arrested in the Haneda Incident. He was arrested in the Haneda Incident.
In the early hours of May 20, 1960, the House of Representatives forcibly adopted the draft of the new Security Treaty in a plenary session. It continued to allow the stationing of U.S. troops in Japan as the U.S. Forces in Japan and recognized the right of collective self-defense, which was in conflict with the Constitution. On June 16, 1960, President Eisenhower's scheduled visit to Japan was cancelled. A month later, on July 15, the Kishi Cabinet, which had forcefully adopted the new Security Treaty, resigned. The death of Michiko Kaba became an incident that had a profound impact on Japanese society.
The death of Michiko Kaba had a profound impact on Japanese society. But I won't laugh forever, I won't be able to laugh forever, and that's all right, I just want to smile at the end, if I'm allowed.
