New in softcover. Hardcover was published in 2024. This book explores the trial of over 600 students arrested at the University of Tokyo in 1969 after thousands of riot police had flooded the campus to end the students' year-long occupation of the university. In making the case for the significance of this trial, this book places it within the context of the Japanese state' s attempts to manage social order, arguing that the Tokyo University trial was a moment in which a range of postwar themes legal process and rights, courtroom order and authority, the proper role of lawyers, the social position of students, and the legitimacy of forms of policing crystalized in a courtroom battle that pushed at the limits of Japan’s postwar sociologic order.