Category

Terrorism in Japan

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Japanese cult and terrorist organization

Japanese Red Army

communist militant group founded by Fusako Shigenobu early in 1971 in Lebanon

Satoshi Kirishima

Japanese terrorist (1954–2024)

East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front

1972–1975 terrorist organization

Japan Revolutionary Communist League, National Committee

Japanese far-left militant group

Japan Socialist Youth League, Liberation Faction

Japanese Marxist student organization

ferry hijacking in Singapore

is a leftist group in Japan. It was formed around 1980 and was involved with struggles related to Narita Airport, as there was long-running conflict between the government of Japan and an alliance of leftist activists who were opposed to the airport for ideological reasons with local farmers who did not wish their land to be appropriated.

is a far right Japanese imperialist group based in Nagasaki Prefecture, founded in 1981. The group was responsible for a number of violent incidents, including the 1990 near-fatal shooting of the mayor of Nagasaki Hitoshi Motoshima who stated that Emperor Shōwa was responsible for the war. In 1984, the group disrupted a Fuji TV recording session with flares.