In February of 1972, 5 members of a radical leftist group took a woman hostage and began a 10 day standoff with the police. Learn about what led up to those events in episode 1 of this 3 part mini-series. Find out about some of the many factions within Japan's New Left movement. Yoshikuni Igarashi's article "Dead Bodies and Living Guns: The United Red Army and Its Deadly Pursuit of Revolution, 1971–1972" https://doi.org/10.1080/10371390701494135 (Taylor and Francis publication - subscription service)