When radicals from Japan's Red Army took a woman hostage in the resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano in 1972, Officer Atsuyuki Sassa was put in charge of diffusing the situation. But the task had its ...

Half a century has passed since the Asama Sanso Incident, which involved police laying siege to a mountain lodge near Karuizawa in Nagano Prefecture, central Japan, following a bloody purge by ...

The massacre led to the URA’s collapse, and some of the surviving members fled to Karuizawa in Nagano Prefecture, barricading themselves in a holiday lodge called Asama-Sanso on Feb. 19 ...