1972, ISBN: 9781156636992

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Japanese Red Army, Sarin Gas Attack on the Tokyo Subway, Kidnapping of Kim Dae-Jung, Japan Airlines Flight 351, Japan Airlines Flight 472, Matsumoto Incident, United Red Army, Seikijuku. Excerpt: The Japanese Red Army (, Nihon Sekigun? , JRA ) was a far-left militia founded by Fusako Shigenobu Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Japanese Red Army, Sarin Gas Attack on the Tokyo Subway, Kidnapping of Kim Dae-Jung, Japan Airlines Flight 351, Japan Airlines Flight 472, Matsumoto Incident, United Red Army, Seikijuku. Excerpt: The Japanese Red Army (, Nihon Sekigun? , JRA ) was a far-left militia founded by Fusako Shigenobu early in 1971 in Lebanon. It called itself Japanese Red Army and sometimes Arab-JRA after the Lod airport massacre. Red Army Faction in Japan Shigenobu had been a leading member of the Red Army Faction (Sekigun-ha) in Japan, whose roots lay in the militant new-left Communist League. Advocating imminent revolution, they set up their own group, declaring war on the state in September, 1969. The police arrested many of them very soon, its founder and intellectual leader Takaya Shiomi was in jail in 1970. The Sekigun lost about 200 members and the very few left merged with a maoist group to form the Rengo Sekigun or United Red Army in July, 1971. This group grew notable because its members slaughtered twelve of their own in its training camp hideout in the Japanese Alps in the winter of that year. A weeklong siege by hundreds of police, the Asama-Sanso incident ended this fiasco. The Red Army in Japan was finished. Fusako Shigenobu had left Japan with only a handful of dedicated people, but her group is said to have had about 40 members at its height and was from the suicidal Lod airport attack on one of the best-known armed leftist groups in the world. The Japanese Red Army, Nihon Sekigun from 1971 had very close ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). By 1972 the United Red Army in Japan was finished and the Shigenobu group dependent on the PFLP for financing, training and weaponry. The JRA's stated goals were to overthrow the Japanese government and Books, , Terrorism-In-Japan~~Books-Llc, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<