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.

The Philippines and Japan held joint military drills as China continues to make sweeping territorial claims over the South China Sea. Both nations carried out the bilateral exercises on June 14, a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fusako Shigenobu, who helped form communist militant group Japanese Red Army, was convicted of masterminding the 1974 siege of the French Embassy in the Netherlands after being arrested in 2000 in ...

It was formed on July 15, 1971, through the unification of the Communist League Red Army faction and the Japanese Communist Party’s Revolutionary Left Kanagawa Committee. The Red Army had become ...

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 ...