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The judge and the terrorist who bonded over a wristwatch
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 ...
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VOX POPULI: Asama-Sanso hostage crisis of 1972 not to be forgotten
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 ...
In Japan, Timeshares Are Back, and Cooler Than Ever
A new model of ownership is allowing middle-class families and wealthy vacationers alike to buy a piece of alluring ...
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This Design-forward Resort Town in Japan Is the Perfect Mountain Retreat — and It's Not Far From Tokyo
In late winter, I met my mother and my aunt and traveled to the mountain resort town of Karuizawa, in Nagano Prefecture ... the landscape was stately Mount Asama, its summit tipped with white.