The All-Japan Seamen's Union (JSU; ja, 全日本海員組合, Kaiin) is a

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representing seafarers and harbour workers in the marine industry, in Japan. The union was founded on 5 October 1945, as the successor to the pre-war Japan Seamen's Union. It was a founding affiliate of the National Trade Union Council, but as that federation moved to the left, it quit and formed the

All-Japan Trade Union Congress The All-Japan Trade Union Congress ( ja, 全日本労働組合会議), better known by its Japanese abbreviation Zenrō) was a national trade union federation that existed in Japan from 1954 to 1964. History Zenrō was established in 1954 by a numb ...

. From 1960, it supported the Democratic Socialist Party, but dropped this in 1973. In 1964, the union was a founding affiliate of the

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, and by 1967 it had 142,935 members. It is now affiliated to the

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, and as of 2010 had around 76,000 members, the majority of whom are not Japanese citizens.

Presidents

:Hisashi Kageyama :1959: Kumazo Nakachi :1966: Yuki Murakami :1980: Kazukiyo Doi :1988: Shoshiro Nakanishi :2000: :2010: Yoji Fujisawa :Yasumi Morita

External links

*{{official website, http://www.jsu.or.jp/

References

Seafarers' trade unions Trade unions established in 1945 Trade unions in Japan