Shigenobu Fusako, former leader of the once-infamous Japanese Red Army, makes her first public appearance since release from two decades in prison.
Japan is often described as a one-party, conservative state – and yet, for over a decade, a highly popular socialist led the government of Tokyo. Meet Governor Minobe.
After twenty years, Shigenobu Fusako, the face of the infamous international Japanese Red Army, will see the end of her prison sentence.
Shigenobu Fusako vowed to take the Japanese Red Army global. Her mission ended with dozens of innocent deaths.
Narita, Japan’s busiest airport, was once the site of a titanic civil struggle that pitted thousands of armed activists and farmers against the state.
Chelsea Szendi Schieder’s new book deftly and fascinatingly reframes the history of Japan’s New Left around the women who contributed so much to it.
The disintegration of a far-left paramilitary group led to a standoff that was watched on live TV by 90% of the country – and that changed Japanese politics for decades.
Pushed underground by vigilant police surveillance, Japan’s militant far left went down a dark path that would tarnish its name in infamy for decades to come.
Bombings, battles with the police, hijackings. Read about the Japanese Red Army – the revolutionary group that would shock Japan to its core.
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