
← History of Japan2 oct · 34 min
Episode 643 - The Forgotten Radicals, Part 1
Episode 643 - The Forgotten Radicals, Part 1
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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