History of Japan

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Episode 644 - The Forgotten Radicals, Part 2

Episode 644 - The Forgotten Radicals, Part 29 oct.35 min

Daidoji Masashi's trajectory from college student to terrorist has a lot to do with the student movement and the New Left in 1960s Tokyo. How did his time at Hōsei University set the idealistic young man on a collision course with the ideologies of "anti-Japanism", and from there to embracing violence as a tool of politics?

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