There are three ways of approaching to the analysis of the student movement.The first approach is employed in analysing collective behavior or mass movementemphasized on the emerging process, the maturity, the decline, the sphere of theinfluence, participant, the means, the interaction process of the movement. Thesecond approach is the one employed in political sociology and it tends to analyzethe movement in terms of ideology, leadership, revolution, loss and gain of preandpost-revolution, a power-holding technique and its method and propaganda.Sociology of education, as the third approach, analyzes the movement in relationwith the class origin and the quality of students, as well as the curriculms, teaching methods and liberalism at college.
The character of the student movement is undecisive. It is unpredictablewith respect to its goal, a place, the means, a solving method, participants, quality of participants, the term, ideology, funds, the supporting system, universityadministration and control over the movement.
This paper is based upon three kinds of data the author collected for thestudy. The first data have been collected from newspapers of the Asahi, theMainichi and the Yomiuri, from January 1, 1965 to May 31, 1968; the seconddata have also been collected from the Asahi and the Mainichi from January 1, 1956 to December 31, 1968; and the third data are the analysis on their campaigntactics.
The findings are; firstly, the sudent movement is active in on-campus politicalissues, on-campus economic issues and off-campus political issues; secondly, it is ego-oriented and nationalism oriented; thirdly, it had political activityorientation and periodic character; fourthly, its power relation is formed againstthe government, the authorities maintaining the public peace, political parties, military forces, the university authorities and college professors; and fifthly, thetactics employed in the movement tends to be non-aggressive at the beginning, gradually becoming aggressive, and at the last moment, very fierce.
