If you want to feel the verve of the anti-Vietnam War movement in Japan, visit Saitama University.
The university's Resource Center for Socio-Dynamic Studies has opened to the public a vast quantity of documents belonging to the Japan "Peace for Vietnam!" Committee, a nongovernmental organization that promoted the anti-Vietnam War movement from 1965 to 1974.
The committee, known by its Japanese acronym "Beheiren," vigorously campaigned against the Japanese government's involvement in the Vietnam War and helped U.S. deserters flee.
The New York Times in November 1965 carried a full-page advertisement placed by Beheiren, while leading French antiwar activists Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir took part in one of its talk sessions in October 1966.