Talk:Asama-Sansō incident

One more victim
It is said that a male civilian tried to enter Asama-Sanso on February 24, "intruding the police-siege" and was shot by the radical, and died on March 1. (e.g. see ja:あさま山荘事件. While I had no copy at hand right now, so no exact page given, 佐々淳行『連合赤軍「あさま山荘」事件』 referred to this guy and his death. Sassa was one of high ranked police officers who attended at the headquarters on site. He argued his injury, or precisely public reaction toward this incident, was one of factors police officers from Tokyo took initiatives to plan the later assaults instead of Nagano prefectural police headquarters. --Aphaia (talk) 07:22, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Is this intruder the same person as the "journalist" that is listed in the article as being killed during the siege? Cla68 (talk) 08:16, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
 * It could be but not clear for me. What I can say is
 * this guy wasn't at the "assault" but rather intruded into the site when the police had took no major action.
 * this guy wasn't a journalist nor cameraman. He was named 田中保彦 (pronunciation unknown) and claimed to be a medical doctor, at least for the radicals. He is rumored to offer them to take himself as an alternative hostage in replacement of Mrs. Muta.
 * The police released three were killed at this incident: two policemen and one civilian (that was, Tanaka). No journalist's death is recorded in Japanese references.

--Aphaia (talk) 08:28, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm going to change the reference in the article from "one journalist killed" to "one civilian intruder, occupation unknown, killed." Cla68 (talk) 12:41, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Nihon Sekigun
I mainly know about this through Koji Wakamatsu's movie, but from what I know Rengo Sekigun (URA) died in the Asama-sanso incident (mostly because the killings of group members by other group members horrified the sympathizers); operations outside Japan were done by Nihon Sekigun. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.219.54.58 (talk) 22:54, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

Purge
It would be really nice if the article expanded on the purge, particularly why it happened. 131.191.98.224 (talk) 03:51, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

Japanese wikipedia resources
I added external links to 5 articles in Japanese wikipedia related to this topic, and culled information from some of them for to start subsections on Obtaining guns and cash and Mountain hide-outs. Note that: (1) The hide-outs are referred to as agitpunkt (agitation points), reflecting the aggressive mentality of the activists even when desperately on the run. (2) The relationship between the two groups is unclear: some of the Japanese articles assume that there was an existing United Red Army "in name only", with two factions. Once in hiding, they obviously knew how to communicate with each other, since bases were in Yamanashi and Gumma (more than one day's hike?). I didn't see any date for the "founding" of the United Red Army. Only date is early December 1971 for their first joint military exercises; immediately afterwards, some in Keihin Group wanted to return to ideological purity. (3) In j-wiki the nature of police pressure is described vaguely, especially in "surrounding" the mountain camps. On the other hand, Japanese media was effective in creating a vigilant public, as police received useful tips. (4) Apparently, in 1971 many Radical Left groups had switched from street demonstrations to senmetsusen (extermination warfare; to kill police officers and other public officials), but the Red Army Faction and Keihin Group, although committing violent crimes to obtain weapons and cash, were losing face (in 内ゲバ terms); they had yet to implement senmetsusen. (5) Only one rifle! (6) My guess is that the key items on all those j-wiki articles should be integrated here, in one English article, rather than starting new articles. Vagabond nanoda (talk) 04:43, 1 September 2020 (UTC)