Now deceased man said he was Satoshi Kirishima who was allegedly member of radical group in 1970s that bombed Japanese firms
A dying man in a Japanese hospital told police that he was one of the country’s most wanted fugitives and had been on the run for nearly 50 years for being part of a radical group that carried out bombings in the 1970s, police have said.
After receiving a tip, police went to the hospital near Tokyo last week to question the 70-year-old man. He told them he had terminal cancer and wanted to die under his real name, Satoshi Kirishima, instead of his alias, and disclosed previously unknown details about the bombings, police said.
On Monday, four days after the questioning, the man died without police having confirmed his identity. DNA tests conducted on him and on relatives showed they were compatible, Kyodo News reported on Friday. Police would not confirm that report.
I feel like a group that does multiple bombings count as extremist, but maybe that’s just me
Yeah, I’m pretty left leaning, but these guys basically said “You Mitsubishi laborers work for a colonialist corporation, therefore you’re fair game.” That’s beyond fucked.
Are those labourers in some minute way culpable for the evils perpetrated by their employers? Sure, I could see an argument for that. After all, they freely chose (or at least as freely as one can choose in a society where labour is compelled for those with little money) to sell their labor. Is that commensurate with death? No way in hell.
The second you consider a plan involving injuring blue collar workers who are just trying to make ends meet, it’s time to rethink your philosophy.
“I disagree with McDonalds’ business practices, so I shot the kid behind the counter at my local franchise.”
Didn’t it say no one was injured in the attack he did?
Usually the kind of guys that support this kind of crap usually align pretty darn well with the kind of guys that think that “the revolution must be protected at any cost”
If it’s not being done on a snowboard, a skateboard, or a surfboard I don’t want to see “extreme” being thrown around.
No no no, that’s X-treme. Totally different thing.
Whoa what a reaction. I wasn’t going for validating what they did by criticizing the replacement of information about their political ideas and actions with the word “extremism”. But that seems exactly how people understand the term. As if there was a righteous or acceptable “middle” the degree of deviance signified how good or what smth is… The political compass needs to know what things are about, not how “x-treme” they are.
Or we need to use that term on any bombing of people, like for example “the extremism of [any us president]”. Step 2 would be picturing what benefit that would add to the conversation