Peter Tasker

Tomorrow’s Joe

The Japanese Red Army militants who hi-jacked a JAL plane to Pyongyang in 1970 claimed “we are Tomorrow’s Joe.” The survivors remain in Pyongyang today and are now on Twitter.

By Peter Tasker | April 6, 2015

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Three Devil Man in the Kobe Hotel
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Kaleidoscope Japan: A Nation Through the Lens of its Literature by Richard Nathan
October 5, 2024

Lesley Downer’s “The Shortest History of Japan”
September 7, 2024

The Coming of Shibusawa: the Politics of Japan’s New Banknotes
July 1, 2024
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