History of Japan

← History of Japan2. Okt. · 34 Min.

Episode 643 - The Forgotten Radicals, Part 1

Episode 643 - The Forgotten Radicals, Part 12. Okt.34 Min.

On August 30, 1974, a bomb went off at Mitsubishi corporate HQ in Tokyo's Marunouchi neighborhood. The culprit was a group calling itself the East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front - Wolf Cell. This week: how did this radical movement grow out of Japan's 1960s, and what does it have to do with the wider political phenomenon known as the New Left?

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