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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...