街宣車

Japanese

Kanji in this term
街	宣	車
がい Grade: 4	せん Grade: 6	しゃ Grade: 1

街宣車(がいせんしゃ) (gaisensha) of the Imperial State Youth Association (皇国青年党), a right-wing organization

Noun

街(がい)宣(せん)車(しゃ) • (gaisensha) 

1. a propaganda truck, a motor vehicle used to spread political messages, especially a vehicle with loudspeakers for delivering such messages
   • 1994, Tsuyoshi Nishiyama, Tokyo no kyabapu no kemuri: The photo document of Iranian's life in JAPAN‎^[1], page 138:

     右翼(うよく)の街宣車(がいせんしゃ)でもおでましになるのかと思(おも)ったが、やってきたのは警察(けいさつ)の護送車(ごそうしゃ)だった。

     Uyoku no gaisensha demo odemashi ni naru no ka to omotta ga, yattekita no wa keisatsu no gosōsha datta.

     I thought a right-wing gaisensha was about to appear, but what came around was a police support vehicle.

References

• Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN