On August 30, 1974, a bomb went off at Mitsubishi corporate HQ in Tokyo’s Marunouchi neighborhood. The culprit was a group calling itself the East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front – Wolf Cell. This week: how did this radical movement grow out of Japan’s 1960s, and what does it have to do with the wider political phenomenon known as the New Left?
Sources
Andrews, William. Dissenting Japan: A History of Japanese Radicalism and Counterculture from 1945 to Fukushima.
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