Tokyo Riots (1952)

Tokyo, Japan. 400,000 workers and students in Tokyo clash with police on May Day after anti-American speeches by Communist leaders, four days after Japan regained independence. GV. Japanese workers and students massed in Tokyo. LV. Back view, speaker addressing crowd. CU. Ranting speaker. SV. man in crowd applauding. SV. Agitators in flaming mob. Chairs being knocked over. SV. Crowd shouting at speakers. SV. Agitators lifting flags. SV. Pan from platform to excited crowd. MV. Procession carrying signs, banners and posters. MV. SV. Demonstrators in long line snaking backwards and forwards across road. GV. Procession. SV. Pan, excited demonstrators, in procession. LV. Formation of police charging procession. SV. MV. Police lashing into crowd with truncheons. GV. SV. Police throwing tear gas bomb into crowd of demonstrators. MV. Police holding back mob attempting to rush newsreel truck. SV. Police holding back mob attempting to rush newsreel truck, Both sides hurling missiles. SV. Pan from crowd of police