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00:00I can hear the voice of truth.
00:09February 19th, 1972.
00:13Nagano Prefecture, Karuizawa, Asama 3rd Warehouse.
00:17Here, the members of the New Left-Wing Kagekiha Alliance were standing with guns in their hands.
00:23One of the hostages was a woman from the 3rd Warehouse.
00:32The police surrounded her for 10 days.
00:40Finally, the Mobile Task Force decided to break in.
00:45The destruction caused by the iron ball.
00:49A long and fierce battle ensued.
00:54This is a great incident that was recorded on the TV in the Showa era.
01:01Asama 3rd Warehouse incident, where the viewing rate of the day was 89.7% for each station.
01:09It was broadcast live for about 10 hours, and most of the Japanese saw it.
01:17What was impressive was...
01:22This huge iron ball.
01:25Yes, it is known that the iron ball of the previous generation was used in the invasion operation.
01:31What was going on at that time and place?
01:36The turning point of fate.
01:3910 days from February 19th, 1972 to February 28th.
01:49The reporters, police officers, and the culprits who were there.
01:56We will investigate the whole story from three perspectives.
01:59The first point of view is the two reporters who continued to broadcast live.
02:06What was on the other side of the long live broadcast?
02:14The Asama 3rd Warehouse incident.
02:17The hostage was Yasuko Muta, the manager.
02:20Hirata Etsuro, an NHK announcer, took the first step and went to the scene at midnight.
02:28Hirata saw the scene and thought.
02:33I thought, oh, this is the place.
02:36I didn't hear anything.
02:38I didn't hear anything at all.
02:41I thought, well, this will be solved soon.
02:45I thought, well, this will be solved soon.
02:51I didn't think it would be long.
02:53On the other hand, the Japanese TV announcer, Yasushi Kuno, who also went to the scene, thought the exact opposite.
03:02I could see the Asama 3rd Warehouse on the slope.
03:07It was just standing on the cliff.
03:10How do you attack this?
03:12I had the impression that it would take a long time to attack.
03:19The press conference of the media began.
03:22Many cameras were placed under the cliff to take a panoramic view of the Asama 3rd Warehouse.
03:28I couldn't see the inside at all.
03:32However, I was able to hear about the Asama 3rd Warehouse from Yasuko Muta's husband, Mr. Ikuo.
03:42Mr. Ikuo was safe because he was out for a walk with his dog before the criminals attacked him.
03:52According to Mr. Ikuo, the Asama 3rd Warehouse has food and fuel stored for several dozen days.
04:00All they know about the criminals is that they are a communist revolutionary group, an alliance.
04:08Who are they?
04:13In the second half of the 1960s, the Vietnam War, when the United States intervened,
04:19young people all over the world raised their voices against the war.
04:24In Japan, the students shouted against the Vietnam War, against Japan and the United States,
04:30and clashed fiercely with the authorities.
04:33The top of the war was a battle between the students and the Mobile Task Force.
04:39The students lost the battle.
04:43Many of them left, and some of them became more radical.
04:48After the crushing and division of each other, an alliance was born.
04:54They fought for the revolution of the armed forces.
04:58They committed crimes such as robbing guns and funds.
05:06The police increased their forces and drove the organization into destruction.
05:12And the place where the fugitives finally arrived was the Asama 3rd Warehouse.
05:20In the first place, the Asama 3rd Warehouse was a warehouse.
05:25On this day, six people were scheduled to stay in the Asama 3rd Warehouse.
05:31The entrance and dining room were on the third floor,
05:36and there were two floors of guest rooms and one floor below.
05:41It was a conventional structure.
05:45On the opposite north side, on the Tanigawa slope,
05:49the Mobile Task Force climbed the hill with their shields.
05:54It was an absolutely impossible steep slope.
05:58It was a fortress of difficulty and difficulty.
06:02As soon as the incident occurred,
06:06the police chief, Kenkei Nagano, surrounded the 3rd Warehouse with a total of 1,100 people.
06:12At that time, they were given such an order.
06:17The priority was to rescue the hostages safely,
06:21and all the culprits were taken alive.
06:25If the culprits who sang the revolution died fighting the police,
06:30they could not become heroes.
06:33Judging by the law is meaningful.
06:38With this order, the police could not shoot at all.
06:44Please take the hostages to their families.
06:49The culprits did not listen to the police's persuasion.
06:54On the second day, the hostages surrendered.
06:59If you give us a chance to live,
07:03we will be satisfied with just that.
07:06Please do it.
07:09Can you hear me?
07:13Yasuko's secret weapon, the number of culprits.
07:19To get as much information as possible,
07:22we did a lot of reconnaissance and photography,
07:26but it all ended in failure.
07:32Gradually, if you don't know how many people are inside,
07:38you don't know what state the hostages are in.
07:43The number of culprits kept increasing.
07:48The biggest mystery was...
07:51I didn't know what they were up to.
07:58They must have made a request.
08:02But they didn't say anything.
08:05I couldn't understand what was going on.
08:09The media couldn't evaluate the situation at all.
08:19The Japanese people didn't know what was going on.
08:24They watched the news all day long.
08:33On the third day,
08:36the mother of the suspect was called to the scene.
08:43Come out. Don't hold anything.
08:48Come out with your wife.
08:51Please come out.
08:55But the suspect's answer was...
09:00a bullet fired at the car.
09:05He answered the call of his mother with a gun.
09:10When he fired the gun at his mother,
09:14I was very angry.
09:17But at the same time,
09:20I felt that their resolve was not one-sided.
09:23One of the police officers wrote,
09:27If he fired at his mother,
09:30he must have aimed at the mobile unit.
09:38In fact,
09:40a civilian claimed to be a hostage.
09:43He was shot in the back of the head.
09:46He died.
09:49Two police officers were injured.
09:56There was no request from the suspect before.
10:04Four days after the suspects were arrested,
10:08the world's history was on the move.
10:13President Nixon visited China.
10:18Chinese people.
10:20China, the ideal of the Allied forces,
10:26and the United States, their greatest enemy,
10:30shook hands with each other.
10:34It was a historic turning point.
10:40But there was another time in the war.
10:46What was going on in the Asama War?
10:55From the incident,
10:58one of the culprits revealed it.
11:02I could see what was going on inside the war.
11:10What kind of people are the culprits?
11:13What kind of people were they?
11:17The leader, Hiroshi Sakaguchi,
11:20was 25 years old at the time.
11:23Kunio Bando, 24 years old.
11:26Masakuni Yoshino, 23 years old.
11:30And their two younger brothers.
11:34They were all excellent students.
11:38Why were they here?
11:41One of the culprits,
11:44Michinori Kato, 19 years old,
11:48revealed the truth.
11:53Michinori Kato was sentenced to 13 years in prison.
11:58He was a minor at the time.
12:01He didn't kill anyone.
12:04After he returned to society,
12:07he continued his family's farm work
12:11and became the head of the wild birds association.
12:16What happened at that time?
12:20He thought it was his duty to talk about it,
12:24so he went on to cover it.
12:27The Asama War
12:31left us all alone.
12:34I feel terrible for Yasuko and Gofu,
12:38who lost their lives in the war,
12:42and for the police officers who were injured.
12:46I feel very sorry for them.
12:52About those 10 days,
12:55he began with some surprising words.
12:59In my opinion,
13:01the Asama War was meaningless.
13:06I thought I was wrong
13:10to join the Asama War.
13:14He was wrong.
13:17When you're in prison,
13:21you're completely surrounded
13:25with the passage of time.
13:28Once you're surrounded,
13:32it's impossible to escape.
13:36In other words,
13:40you just wait for death.
13:44That's why it's impossible to stay in prison.
13:49He didn't want to stay in prison.
13:53Then why?
13:56Let's go back in time.
14:03Before joining the Asama War,
14:06the Union Army was being chased by the police.
14:10They hid in the mountains,
14:13while Gunma and Nagano were on the run.
14:17One by one, the members were arrested.
14:20The five members who managed to escape
14:23eventually made it to Karuizawa,
14:26but they were found by the police
14:29in a building called Satsuki Sanso.
14:32The police officers were injured.
14:35The Asama Sanso was the last place
14:38they jumped into.
14:41The leader of the criminals,
14:44Sakaguchi Hiroshi,
14:46wrote about what happened
14:49in the prison.
14:52There was a car in the parking lot,
14:55and I felt like there was someone in the building.
14:58This is good.
15:02When I went inside,
15:05there was a woman standing there.
15:08She was about 30 years old,
15:11and she had a beautiful face.
15:13She wouldn't do anything without making a noise.
15:16Her husband was out walking his dog.
15:19The customer wasn't skating.
15:22Her husband had the car keys,
15:25but they weren't here.
15:30After arresting the woman,
15:33I asked Bando,
15:36if he could build a barricade
15:39in case the police came.
15:41At this time, Kato,
15:44who was at the entrance,
15:47was thinking about something else.
15:50When Sakaguchi and the others
15:53entered the Asama Sanso,
15:56I was still waiting.
15:59I wondered what was going on,
16:02but Sakaguchi and the others
16:05told me to go inside.
16:08I couldn't understand
16:11why I had to run away
16:14from this place.
16:17There were only 5 of us left.
16:20If we were arrested,
16:23the organization would be completely destroyed.
16:26In order to prevent that,
16:29we had to run away.
16:32There was a car at the Asama Sanso,
16:35so I thought I might be able to run away.
16:37I was told to go inside.
16:43In my opinion,
16:46Sakaguchi made the wrong choice.
16:54Sakaguchi and Kato.
16:57Their relationship began 2 months ago
17:00when they were living together in a hideout.
17:02The only thing they had in common
17:05was that they were the same age.
17:11That night...
17:14When it got dark,
17:17we decided to eat.
17:21We ate the oden
17:24that Mrs. Muta had prepared for the guests.
17:27After a long time,
17:29I felt the energy
17:32permeating my body.
17:39I will tell you the purpose of our invasion.
17:42We are
17:44communist.
17:47Our goal is
17:50to defeat the government.
17:53We invaded this place
17:56because we were
17:59chased by the enemy
18:02and asked for help from the government.
18:05That's why you are not a hostage.
18:08You are the administrator of the Sanso.
18:11We are just borrowing this place from you.
18:18After this explanation,
18:21I decided to abandon the plan
18:24of using the hostages to escape.
18:29Sakaguchi and Kato
18:32didn't consider Yasuko as a hostage.
18:35That's why they didn't consider
18:38the possibility of trading the hostages.
18:41However,
18:44objectively speaking,
18:47she is only a hostage.
18:50She is a clear hostage.
18:53The fact that we did such a thing
18:55was to liberate the people
18:58and fight for the revolution.
19:01We are saying that
19:04we are fighting for the revolution,
19:07but we are taking the people as hostages.
19:10We are fundamentally
19:13deviating from our position.
19:16I think that
19:19we committed a fundamental mistake
19:22by taking the hostages.
19:25Come out!
19:28Don't hold anything!
19:31Come out with your wife!
19:34Please!
19:37Someone fired a gun
19:40at Yoshino's mother.
19:43After a while,
19:46Yoshino came back with a gun.
19:49Her eyes were swollen.
19:52Yoshino fired the gun.
19:55He couldn't stand his mother's persuasion.
19:58He fired the gun
20:01to finish her off as soon as possible.
20:04Kato spent most of his time
20:07in the attic on the 3rd floor.
20:11He was sitting on his knees
20:14and looking outside.
20:17A police car came to investigate.
20:19He said,
20:22let's shoot.
20:25We know it's useless to shoot,
20:28but let's shoot.
20:31Was there really a reason
20:34to shoot the police?
20:37We were in the attic on the 3rd floor
20:40and were fighting the police.
20:43It was meaningless
20:46to shoot one or two police officers.
20:49In order to carry out the revolution,
20:52there was a gun-to-gun battle.
20:55We attacked the police station
20:58and took their guns and weapons.
21:01We stacked them up
21:04and went to the Self-Defense Force
21:07and the U.S. military.
21:10Even though we knew
21:13we were going to be killed,
21:15we didn't know
21:18what would happen next.
21:21It was completely different
21:24from what we had been doing
21:27until the Asama Incident.
21:30That's why we decided
21:33to carry out the gun-to-gun battle.
21:36Why couldn't they surrender?
21:39We found out later
21:42that they had already
21:45surrendered, so we should have
21:48surrendered.
21:51But before that,
21:54we told our comrades
21:57to surrender
22:00so that we could run away
22:03with our guns.
22:06We knew it was meaningless,
22:09but since we were fighting
22:12the police,
22:15we had no choice
22:18but to fight.
22:23The police announced
22:26that they would attack
22:29only on the 28th.
22:32Why didn't they attack
22:35on the 10th?
22:38Mr. Kunoyasu looked into
22:41this incident later
22:43and heard from the police chief
22:46that they had a plan
22:49to create a public opinion.
22:52There was a plan
22:55to attack on the 27th.
22:58But the 27th was Sunday.
23:01There was a strong opinion
23:04that there would be
23:07no gun-to-gun battle on Sunday.
23:10I didn't know
23:13that the police
23:16was trying to create
23:19a public opinion.
23:22The media and public opinion
23:25said that we should wait
23:28until the number of people
23:31who wanted to attack
23:34had increased.
23:37We had no choice
23:40but to attack
23:43on the 27th.
23:46I thought that
23:49we should wait
23:52until the number
23:55of people who wanted
23:58to attack
24:01had increased.
24:04On February 28th,
24:07the police launched
24:10a massive attack
24:13on the 10th.
24:16The time had come
24:19to attack on the 10th.
24:22They rescued the hostages
24:25from the gunmen
24:28and secured the hostages.
24:31It was a life-or-death operation.
24:34The two brothers
24:37who controlled the train
24:40and the mobile unit
24:43were attacked.
24:46On February 28th,
24:49the police launched
24:52a massive attack
24:55on the 10th.
24:58Kato, who was watching
25:01from the outside,
25:04was surprised.
25:07I thought that the train
25:10was getting closer.
25:14Hakuta Goro,
25:17who was in charge of the train
25:20and the mobile unit,
25:23was surprised.
25:26I thought that
25:29the train would turn over
25:32if the mobile unit
25:35hit the building.
25:38The train was parked
25:40only 5.5 meters away.
25:44To stop the train,
25:47I had to aim at the driver.
25:50I aimed at the driver's seat
25:53and fired several times.
25:56A bullet came
25:59right in front of my left eye.
26:02It was a window
26:05with bulletproof glass.
26:07The bullet came right in front of me.
26:10At that moment,
26:13I realized that it was dangerous.
26:18Goro controlled the train.
26:25The iron ball
26:28easily broke through the wall.
26:33Surprisingly,
26:35it was different from
26:38the normal operation.
26:41Normally,
26:44you swing the arm
26:47to accelerate the iron ball
26:50and destroy it.
26:53But in this case,
26:56you just pull the iron ball
26:59and drop it like a pendulum.
27:02I pulled the iron ball
27:05and dropped it.
27:08I asked him
27:11to drop the iron ball
27:14backwards.
27:17But he told me to drop it
27:20forward.
27:23So I pulled the iron ball
27:26and dropped it.
27:29It was a sudden change.
27:32It was not a powerful job.
27:35It was a gentle job
27:38to pull the iron ball
27:41and drop it.
27:44It was more like
27:47a maid's job.
27:50Our job was
27:53more luxurious.
27:56When I saw the workers,
27:59I thought,
28:01it was a good job.
28:04Why did the police
28:07reverse the direction of the train?
28:10The reason is still unknown.
28:14There was an iron ball
28:17hanging on the wall of the train.
28:20It hit the iron ball
28:23and made a big hole.
28:26There was a bullet hole
28:28on the wall of the train.
28:35An hour and a half later,
28:38the train entered the building
28:41from the first floor to the second floor.
28:44The window is open.
28:47But the hostage was not there.
28:50The hostage and the criminal
28:53were in the bedroom
28:55on the first floor.
29:00But the iron ball
29:03suddenly became silent.
29:06There was only space for one driver.
29:09The captain was standing.
29:12Behind him,
29:15a man with a radio
29:18was on the battery case.
29:21The battery terminal was broken.
29:23The engine could not be started.
29:28Hiroyuki was in the driver's seat
29:31for more than 5 hours.
29:34Something terrible happened.
29:37I couldn't go to the bathroom.
29:40I couldn't get out of the car.
29:43The iron ball was flying from the other side.
29:46I was in such a small place
29:49for a whole day.
29:51I had no choice.
29:54There was a defroster pipe in the car.
29:57I used the pipe
30:00to drain the water
30:03from the gap of the car.
30:06On the other hand,
30:09Kuno announced
30:12that he was going to
30:15tell the floor manager
30:18to put the commercial
30:21in the car.
30:24But the floor manager
30:27told me to wait a little longer.
30:30I thought it would be easy
30:33to put the commercial in the car.
30:36But the commercial was not put
30:39in the car for a long time.
30:42It was the first time
30:45that a private broadcaster
30:48decided not to put a commercial
30:51in the car for a long time.
30:54All the planned programs
30:57were canceled
31:00and the live broadcast
31:03from Asama Sansou continued.
31:06But the original plan
31:09was a shorter broadcast.
31:12I thought it would be over
31:15in an hour or two.
31:17Including NHK,
31:20all the stations thought so.
31:23In other words,
31:26it was the same as the announcement
31:29of the police station the day before.
31:32Five hours later,
31:35six hours later,
31:38the battle did not end.
31:41No station was able
31:44to break through.
31:47The second mobile unit,
31:50Captain Naotaka Uchida,
31:53suffered a tragedy.
31:56He was here.
31:59He and I were only
32:021.5 meters apart.
32:05He was lying down
32:08and was in danger.
32:11I called out to him.
32:14He said thank you
32:17and he shot.
32:20I was angry.
32:23He was shooting at a human being.
32:26He was not a human being.
32:29The bullet of the rifle
32:32fired by Bando Kunio
32:35hit his left head.
32:38Captain Naotaka Uchida,
32:41dressed in uniform,
32:44was ordered to remove
32:47the bullet from his head.
32:50He was determined
32:53to be in charge of the unit.
32:56That was the reason
32:59why he did not return.
33:04Right after that,
33:07Hirata, the announcer,
33:10said,
33:12This is the first time
33:15I've seen a TV show
33:18where a human being
33:21aims at a human being
33:24and shoots him.
33:27This crime itself
33:30is abnormal,
33:33but the fact that
33:36it was broadcast
33:39on TV
33:42is terrifying.
33:46Right after that,
33:49the Special Vehicle Unit
33:52Lieutenant Takami Shigemitsu
33:55died in the hospital.
33:58Two of his colleagues
34:01lost their commanders
34:04and their officers.
34:07The attack was suspended.
34:10Two hours later,
34:13the police were forced to regroup.
34:19Two elite officers
34:22from the Mobile Task Force
34:25and two brave officers
34:28from the Nagano Prefectural Police
34:31formed the Mobile Task Force.
34:34Kouki Nakata,
34:36the Chief of the 9th Mobile Task Force,
34:39took the lead
34:42in the assault.
34:45He became a dangerous
34:48and important mission.
34:51At that time,
34:54there were demonstrations
34:57around the school,
35:00but it was the first time
35:03that a gun was fired
35:06at a police officer.
35:09Until then,
35:12it was mostly a gun.
35:15A single bullet
35:18could pierce through.
35:21Did he have no fear
35:24or no desire to refuse?
35:27There was a victim
35:30who had become a hostage
35:33in front of me.
35:36I'm not the only one
35:39who felt that way.
35:42I said it with confidence.
35:45Gas bombs were fired one after another
35:48to support the assault.
35:51During this time,
35:54Nakata and his team
35:57finally reached the bedroom
36:00where the hostage was.
36:02As soon as I stood up,
36:05I heard a loud bang.
36:08It was so loud
36:11that I couldn't see anything.
36:14It was dark and smoky.
36:17It took about 40 minutes
36:20for a bullet to hit the bed
36:234 to 5 meters away.
36:26At that time,
36:29Nakata and his team
36:32were already here.
36:35I told them to stop.
36:38I told them to stop
36:41shooting the hostage.
36:44I told them
36:47to stop shooting the hostage.
36:50I told them to stop
36:53shooting the hostage.
36:56The gun was not fired
36:59to save the hostage.
37:02Nakata regretted
37:05that he had done something wrong.
37:12I was the first one to join the team.
37:15The first one to join the team
37:18was decided by the strategy meeting.
37:21I knew that I would be shot
37:24if I joined the team.
37:27I didn't tell anyone.
37:29The next morning,
37:32I went to see my wife
37:35as usual.
37:38She came out
37:41as usual.
37:44At that time,
37:47I thought that
37:50if I died,
37:53I would be left alone
37:56with my daughter
37:59and my wife.
38:02I should have asked her
38:05to take care of my children.
38:08That was my feeling.
38:11At the entrance of the bedroom,
38:14Nakata waited for a chance.
38:17The last water
38:19opened the bedroom's wall
38:22and opened the breakthrough.
38:25Now!
38:26Now!
38:28Kenkyo, go forward!
38:31Everyone jumped in.
38:34I jumped in, too.
38:37I couldn't see anyone.
38:40I tried to shoot the gun
38:43that they had.
38:46I was crazy about it.
38:49When I saw it,
38:52I pulled his hand.
38:55I thought
38:57I was wrong.
38:59I thought he was a woman.
39:02I pulled his hand.
39:05I thought he was a victim.
39:08I resisted
39:10until the end.
39:17I just got in.
39:19I heard that Yasuko was saved.
39:21I heard that Yasuko was saved.
39:24Yasuko was saved.
39:27Yasuko was saved.
39:30It was completed at once.
39:33It took 218 hours
39:36since the Allied forces
39:39invaded Asama.
39:46At this moment,
39:4889.7% of the viewership
39:51of all TV channels.
39:56Five criminals were executed
39:59in the middle of a fierce battle.
40:03Two police officers lost their lives.
40:07Why did all the criminals
40:10come out satisfied?
40:13It was the suffering of the Democratic Police.
40:15The officials shed tears.
40:20But after that,
40:23a deeper darkness was revealed.
40:31The Asama Incident
40:34witnessed by the people in real time.
40:37It was a big turning point
40:40for this country.
40:42It was also the end of the era
40:45when the war of independence was raging.
40:48People learned the meaning
40:51and danger of TV broadcasts.
40:54Another story of the Asama Incident
40:57will never disappear
41:00from our memories.
41:12This is how people
41:15treated the criminals.
41:18At that time,
41:21there was an atmosphere
41:24to fight against the government.
41:27There was a voice
41:30to evaluate the attitude
41:33to fight against the government.
41:38If there was no lynching,
41:40the Asama Incident would have continued.
41:43But they didn't know
41:46what revolution was.
41:49After the Asama Incident,
41:52a shocking tragedy was revealed
41:55by the police.
41:58Before the Asama Incident,
42:0114 members of the Allied Army
42:04were lynched and killed.
42:07The world's attention
42:10was on the Asama Incident.
42:13But they were too young.
42:16The theory was the only thing
42:19they could rely on.
42:22But they became a group
42:25of violent criminals.
42:28That's how they learned
42:31about the lynching of the Asama Incident.
42:34Finally, they were able to do something.
42:37Leader Hiroshi Sakaguchi
42:40became the leader.
42:43Masakuni Yoshino
42:46became the leader.
42:49Kato Kyodai,
42:52who was a minor at the time,
42:55joined the army.
42:58But Kunio Bando
43:01was released
43:04after the Asama Incident
43:07where the Japanese army
43:10had already been wiped out.
43:15Police Station, 2nd Mobile Division.
43:20The memories of the Asama Incident
43:23are still strong here.
43:29That incident
43:32is still a proud memory
43:35and a regretful memory
43:37of the Asama Incident.
43:40Since the day
43:43our leader was killed.
43:46Salute!
43:49Salute!
43:52This is
43:55one of the most unforgettable
43:58incidents
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