All-Japan Seamen's Union

The All-Japan Seamen's Union (JSU; Japanese: 全日本海員組合, Kaiin) is a trade union 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.[1] 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.[2] From 1960, it supported the Democratic Socialist Party, but dropped this in 1973.[3]

In 1964, the union was a founding affiliate of the Japanese Confederation of Labour, and by 1967 it had 142,935 members.[2] It is now affiliated to the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, and as of 2010 had around 76,000 members, the majority of whom are not Japanese citizens.[1]

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

References

1. "What is JSU". JSU. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
2. Chaffee, Frederick H. (1969). Area Handbook for Japan. Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.
3. "主要年譜". JSU. Retrieved 10 November 2021.