What type of rifles did the Japanese army use? Was Genkokujo really a Japanese thing? And aren't communists supposed to be red?

Ordinary Japanese said Thursday after hearing ... were still pursuing the fantasy of creating a Communist utopia.” Shigenobu is the ninth Red Army member to be captured since 1995.

Thereafter, the Communists were beleaguered by Japanese sweep operations and Nationalist blockades aimed at containing the party’s sphere of influence. The Red Army suffered devastating losses ...

Two top Japanese Communists, Kyuichi Tokuda and Yoshio Shiga, occupied adjoining prison cells for 17 years, used to tap messages to each other through the wall. Since they were freed at war’s ...

It was the biggest ballot-box defeat suffered by any Communist Party since World War II. Not only in its voting, but in its conduct of the election, Japan had aimed to show the U.S. that it ...

The Japanese Red Army became known in the 1970s for a series of horrifying attacks, including plane hijackings and hostage-takings. The most notorious was the machine gun and grenade attack at ...

was freed extralegally after the Japanese Red Army demanded the release of its jailed activists during the so-called Dhaka incident, in which the militant communist group hijacked a Japan Airlines ...

Tsutomu Shirosaki, a former Japanese Red Army member involved in a deadly 1986 rocket attack on the Japanese Embassy in Jakarta, died in Tokyo’s Fuchu Prison on July 20 after choking on ...