The End of the Japanese Red Army
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- How a string of violent attacks and a shifting political landscape spelled the end for the Japanese Red Army. But first, they committed some of their most infamous attacks - the hijacking of Japan Air Lines Flight 404, the Laju incident; the storming of the French Embassy in The Hague, the siege of the AIA building in Kuala Lumpur, the Dhaka hijacking, and more.
Part five of a five-part series on the Japanese Red Army.
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Hey everyone, thanks for watching our final episode on the history of the Japanese Red Army. I've really enjoyed making this series - it's been quite the project, putting together two and a half hours of video on the JRA. Really appreciate everyone who's watched along! It's amazing - there's so many more winding pathways to the history, encompassing decades, of the JRA, its members, and those who they affected. It's always tempting to go even deeper, but I hope I did a good job of balancing the details and the overall narrative. I'm looking forward to eventually focusing on some other topics from the era - and I will have at least one video further discussing some aspects of how the JRA are remembered today.
Thanks again, everyone - we'll be back soon!
I am a South Korean who doubted the Korean propaganda textbook history. I finally got into what really happened in the Asian history of the modern days. Thanks!
Absolutely fascinating and superbly done documentary films , thank you so much for making this intriguing series about such a lesser know terror group .
This is an amazing series!!!! Thank you so much for educating us about this history, that remains pretty untouched by mass media
Thanks for the series, very informative!
Bravo, excellent work. Next series should be Aum Shirinkyo
Thank you! Although we have covered Aum in written form, we'd certainly also like to focus on them on our channel here in the future. They're a good follow-up to a group like the JRA and the effect they've had on Japanese society.
We hope you've enjoyed this series - we're glad to have been able to present it in full. We'll be taking more deep dives into Japanese history, culture, and language soon!
You channel is amazing and what a series!
I just discovered this channel existed! I'd LOVE to see you tackle the yakuza's antics from the 40s to the 80s. The Yamaguchi-gumi's rise in this period makes for some interesting research!
Yamagumi-guchi was founded in 1915 not the 40s or 80s the Yakuza origin goes back 400 years they are one of the oldest Mafia groups.
Anoter great series - really appreciate all your work on these series
Really glad you enjoyed it!
This has been an excellent series. Always wanted to learn more about this, top work!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Also, did ya'll use some of the music from the OST of the Ghost in the Shell PS1 Game? I could've sworn I heard it
Great choice of soundtrack for the whole series👌congrats for the vids!
Also: Fusako has been released for some months now!
Amazing journey you’ve taken us through, thank you so much! Excited for your future videos. Any plans on covering Zenkyoto?
Great stuff! Love the comprehensive research here. An excellent job Noah and the rest of the UJ team, can't wait to see the next video topic!!
Similair groups in The West, althiugh violent and very dangerous had a more relaxed hippievibe, wich must have made it way more enjoy able to be a member. Being in The JRA seems about as fun as being in a prison batallion in USSR during WW2.
Naaa...You should read about the German RAF or the Italian Red Brigades. The Italian one was the most succesful they last until 2014. The German RAF last until 1998 with a lot of Members still free, they arrested one female Member this year in Germany. She still had weapons in her flat in Berlin.
Excellent series!
I can't even picture a style of smoking so recognizable that anyone could be identified by it.
Yeah, I wish I had access to a diagram or something 😅
I like to imagine she was walking around with a cigarette in each nostril.
I binged this video series tonight. I didnt know any of this had happened! It was very interesting.
Their death-cult style reminds me a lot of the disgusting Abimael Guzman and his Shining Path party in Peru, someone who also encouraged a sort of worship of death as part of their "revolution". Their (both the JRA and the SP's) actions are nonsensical, horrific and nonsensically horrific, and I can say all of this as a self-identified Marxist and a communist. To me, the JRA feels far more like a cult with left-wing aesthetics than any sort of real political movement. The same things can be said even more so for the United Red Army. Think about it, everything they did was, in actuality, extremely counterproductive for the genuine Marxist/Leftist movement from which they arose, the Japanese student movement.
"and I can say all of this as a self-identified Marxist and a communist" and yet your fellow communists constantly justify and celebrate mass murderers like Guzman
Thel dysfunctionality produced by such a poorly designed ideology as Marxism is not at all surprising.
It might have stemmed from the Japanese ideology at the time where kamikaze was seen as honorable. Her father was a militant of the imperial army as well who probably also was instilled with those militant values
すごい動画ですね！
よくまとまっていて、おもしろかったです。👏👏💐
Imagine being born and raised in one of the most developed countries in the world and throwing away your life for terrorism.
u mean resistant.
*Fusako Free As A Bird 🕊️*
Amazin documentary btw 👍🏿
that was pretty awesome
Thanks!
If you can read Japanese, the interview with Bando Kunio's mom is a great read.
Also, the autobiography that Yasuhiro Uegaki (one of the guys who was doing the M Operation with Bando, Shinto, and then split up from the group that would eventually get held up at Asama-sanso) is a great book and I recommend it. The details he goes in about are fascinating. You can really get a feel of how these guys were like.
This was a phenomenal series I loved it. There is an answer to that final question tho everyone regardless of their mistakes deserves to see a world post-revolution where no person subjugates another and all the world's resources are equitably distributed and shared by all the world's people.
How daft was it to be on a plane you plan to hijack and possibly shoot up but only ONE person knows the plan. Who then got wiped out by their own grenade but could've been hit by crossfire or anything.
This was fantastic!
Shogenobu was recently released from prison and is suffering from cancer
I mainly know about this organisation though it’s members I recall fusako shigenbou had a daughter with a Palestinian may shigenbou who currently works as a journalist at one point she was a stateless person and there was a documentary about her on aljazeera watched a snipet of it years ago but I can’t find it now fascinating documentary though and she’s bilingual too
MONUMENTAL!
This is a great series and I have very much enjoyed watching it. Thank you for all of your hard work covering this difficult topic. I felt I should say, though, there are a few descriptions of states and political situations in this video which I feel could be mischaracterisations. For example, RVN (South Vietnam) is described as 'democratic'. That is quite a strong term for a state dominated first by a Buddhist-persecuting reactionary and then by a military junta, both of which used rigged elections to establish their legitimacy.
Thanks for watching! I appreciate the commentary re: South Vietnam - as I was going back over my article in preparation for this video, I actually wondered about whether I should change that description or go deeper into the reality of the Vietnam conflict - one I still need to learn more about. I ended up keeping it as originally described, but was a bit uneasy about it how close I was hewing to the traditional American narrative of the South-North conflict (probably a result of some of my sources being as old as they are).
Yeah, that was a little weird. South Vietnam was certainly not democratic. If I remember correctly they actually canceled the election that would determine whether the north government or the south government would head a united Vietnam as it was very likely that the south government would lose that vote under legitimate circumstances seeing as dictatorships aren't typically that popular with people.. That being said, I enjoyed the rest of the video, good work.
@@kgblagden Yeah, I agree that I should have taken the time to further investigate and change that part. I took the easy route of allowing the older narrative of the Vietnam War to take preceidence - would have been worth it to add some extra context!
Do you have the name of the music that plays in the outro?
It's Mizoguchi Hajime's "Grace Omega", the ending theme from the film Jin-Roh (which appropriately enough portrays an alternate-history version of the New Left protests).
@@UnseenJapan thank you
I have to go watch the rest of this amazing series, I didn't realize I started at the end.
I'll never understand why JRA types are so infatuated with such a horrible ideology that always makes the people that weren't murdered absolutely miserable to the point of cannibalism in some cases. Do they think what Pol Pot did was good?
well the answer is clear resistance well keep on as long as the opressors wont stop, Fusako Shigenobu was just one of many who will resist no matter what the cost caus the opressor keep at it despit the costs.
Why do I feel like I am watching some animes…
What an amazing series! Fantastically presented, well researched, objectively done and just great. Seriously, to think I stumbled onto this aspect of history after watching Almighty Loli's Jin Roh review where he mentioned the JRA😲 I tell ya, I am glad I was born in the late 90s and not in the 60s to 80s. The world was much more chaotic back then and stranger than fiction. Imagine Japanese far-left radical marxist terrorists and islamic fundamentalist terrorists teaming up to sow chaos and tragedy on the world. Stranger than fiction.
Do you even read the news? What world do you live in?
Japan got worse end of ww2 combine history damage Japan spirit and pride
I'm afraid anti Japanese settlement in Malaysia and Indonesia as well is a dark story at the all
Japan Red Army go to malaysia a building AIA invaded a PDRM Polis diraja malaysia year 4 august 1975