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Asama Lodge incident

KASUIZAWA, Japan - A man offers flowers at a monument in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, on Feb. 28, 2012, the 40th anniversary of the settlement of the Asama Lodge incident. Five radicals took a woman hostage at the lodge on Feb. 19, 1972. The police stormed the building and rescued the woman on Feb. 28 that year.

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Asama Lodge incident

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Asama Lodge in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, during the Asama Lodge incident in February 1972. Five radicals took a woman hostage at the lodge on Feb. 19, 1972. The police stormed the building and rescued the woman on Feb. 28 that year.

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Asama Lodge incident

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows an iron ball operated by police destroying the roof of Asama Lodge in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, on Feb. 28, 1972. After that, the police stormed the building and rescued a hostage taken by radicals on Feb. 19 that year.

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Asama Lodge incident

NAGANO, Japan - Photo shows Asama Lodge in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, on Feb. 15, 2012. Five radicals took a woman hostage at the lodge on Feb. 19, 1972. The police stormed the building and rescued the woman on Feb. 28 that year.

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Asama Sanso incident in central Japan in 1972

KARUIZAWA, Japan, April 20 Kyodo - A member of a Japanese riot police squad points his gun at a mountain lodge at the center of a hostage crisis known as the Asama Sanso incident in the Nagano Prefecture town of Karuizawa, central Japan, on Feb. 24, 1972. The police operation to rescue a woman taken as a hostage there by armed members of the United Red Army group lasted for 10 days until Feb. 28.

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50th anniversary of Asama Sanso hostage crisis

Former police troopers visit a memorial to two police officers, who were killed in 1972 in a shoot-out with radicals, in the Nagano Prefecture town of Karuizawa, central Japan, on Feb. 28, 2022, the 50th anniversary of the end of the Asama Sanso hostage crisis at a mountain lodge.

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GLOBALink | Five decades on, Shanghai Communique still resonates among Chinese and American peoples

STORY: GLOBALink | Five decades on, Shanghai Communique still resonates among Chinese and American peoples DATELINE: Feb. 26, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:03 LOCATION: SHANGHAI, China CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. file pics of the visit 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): JEFFERY LEHMAN, Vice chancellor of New York University (NYU) Shanghai 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): WU XINBO, Director of the Center for American Studies, Fudan University STORYLINE: Half a century ago, then U.S. President Richard Nixon landed in Beijing for a historic visit to the People's Republic of China since its founding in 1949, opening what he called a "week that changed the world." It was on Feb. 28, 1972, as Nixon was about to wrap up his ice-breaking visit, that the Shanghai Communique was issued, a historic document that became the political foundation for the two countries to establish diplomatic ties. Looking back on the past, experts observed that the normalization of China-U.S. ties has brought enormous benefits to both peoples and the re

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Asama Lodge incident

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Asama Lodge in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, during the Asama Lodge incident in February 1972. Five radicals took a woman hostage at the lodge on Feb. 19, 1972. The police stormed the building and rescued the woman on Feb. 28 that year. (Kyodo)

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Asama Lodge incident

KASUIZAWA, Japan - A man offers flowers at a monument in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, on Feb. 28, 2012, the 40th anniversary of the settlement of the Asama Lodge incident. Five radicals took a woman hostage at the lodge on Feb. 19, 1972. The police stormed the building and rescued the woman on Feb. 28 that year. (Kyodo)

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Asama Lodge incident

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows an iron ball operated by police destroying the roof of Asama Lodge in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, on Feb. 28, 1972. After that, the police stormed the building and rescued a hostage taken by radicals on Feb. 19 that year. (Kyodo)

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Asama Lodge incident

NAGANO, Japan - Photo shows Asama Lodge in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, on Feb. 15, 2012. Five radicals took a woman hostage at the lodge on Feb. 19, 1972. The police stormed the building and rescued the woman on Feb. 28 that year. (Kyodo)