The Japan Federation of Newspaper Workers' Unions (Japanese: 日本新聞労働組合連合), better known by its Japanese abbreviation Shinbun Rōren, is a trade union representing newspaper journalists in Japan.
[2][page needed] It was affiliated with the General Council of Trade Unions of Japan (Sōhyō), and by 1958 it had 27,056 members.[3][page needed].
In 1960, Shinbun Rōren played an active role in the massive Anpo protests against renewal of the US-Japan Security Treaty, with journalists reporting on the protests as part of their job, and then joining the protests after they got off of work.
[4] By 1970, membership had grown to 38,057[5][page needed] and reached 41,961 by 1985.
[2][page needed] In 1989, Sōhyō merged into the RENGO trade federation, but Shinbun Rōren decided instead to become independent.