The All-Japan Seamen's Union (JSU; , Kaiin) is a

trade union A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages ...

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 (), 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 number of unions on the right-wing ...

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

Japanese Confederation of Labour The Japanese Confederation of Labour (Dōmei; ) was a national trade union federation in Japan. The federation was founded in 1964, with the merger of the All-Japan Trade Union Congress, the National Council of Government and Public Workers' Uni ...

, 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