Daidoji Masashi’s trajectory from college student to terrorist has a lot to do with the student movement and the New Left in 1960s Tokyo. How did his time at Hōsei University set the idealistic young man on a collision course with the ideologies of “anti-Japanism”, and from there to embracing violence as a tool of politics?
Sources
Andrews, William. Dissenting Japan: A History of Japanese Radicalism and Counterculture from 1945 to Fukushima
Schieder, Chelsea Szendi. “East Asian Anti-Japan Armed Front: A Tale for These Times.”
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