By MAKI OKUBO/ Senior Staff Writer
February 9, 2022 at 17:46 JST
A scene from the Asama Sanso Incident, a deadly standoff between police and the United Red Army in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, in February 1972 (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
A judge who held the power of life or death over a convicted member of the United Red Army, a Japanese terrorist group, following a 10-day fatal standoff with police stayed in touch with the man he believed would find redemption by serving a life prison sentence and touchingly bequeathed him his wristwatch when he died. [Read More]
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