Asama Lodge incident

Asama Lodge incident

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows a site in the then village of Kurabuchi, now part of Takasaki, in Gunma Prefecture, on March 12, 1972. The bodies of four of the 14 people killed in a purge of United Red Army radicals were found buried at the site. Five radicals who survived the purge committed the Asama Lodge hostage taking later in the month.

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