Dispatches from Japan

JAJ39: the Asama Lodge and the New Left (part 3)


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In February of 1972, 5 members of a radical leftist group took a woman hostage and began a 10 day standoff with the police. In this episode, the conclusion to this podcast mini-series, find out about how the standoff ended.YouTube video with news footage of the event: https://youtu.be/cVLo1zAe5oUYoshikuni 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)
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Dispatches from JapanBy Jonathan Isaacson