Japanese Red Army

communist militant group founded by Fusako Shigenobu early in 1971 in Lebanon
Organization guerrilla_organization Q333954
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Japanese Red Army

Summary

Japanese Red Army is a guerrilla organization[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of guerrilla_organization entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (880 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Japanese Red Army's instance of is recorded as guerrilla organization[3].
  • Japanese Red Army's instance of is recorded as terrorist organization[4].
  • Japanese Red Army's instance of is recorded as Japanese New Left[5].
  • Red Army is named after Japanese Red Army[6].
  • Japanese Red Army's headquarters location is recorded as Lebanon[7].
  • Japanese Red Army's headquarters location is recorded as Paris[8].
  • Japanese Red Army's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 155219646[9].
  • Japanese Red Army's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as nr94030951[10].
  • Japanese Red Army's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00334577[11].
  • Japanese Red Army's Commons category is recorded as Japanese Red Army[12].
  • Japanese Red Army's chairperson is recorded as Fusako Shigenobu[13].
  • +1971-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Japanese Red Army[14].
  • Japanese Red Army was dissolved in +2001-00-00T00:00:00Z[15].
  • Japanese Red Army's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0pv5m[16].
  • Japanese Red Army's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Japanese Red Army[17].
  • Japanese Red Army's political ideology is recorded as communism[18].
  • Japanese Red Army's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Japanese-Red-Army[19].
  • Japanese Red Army's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'ja', 'text': '日本赤軍'}[20].
  • Japanese Red Army's member count is recorded as {'amount': '+0'}[21].
  • Japanese Red Army's Encyclopædia Universalis ID is recorded as armee-rouge-japonaise[22].
  • Japanese Red Army's designated as terrorist by is recorded as United States[23].
  • Japanese Red Army's Interlingual Index ID is recorded as i79438[24].
  • Japanese Red Army's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007302817205171[25].
  • Japanese Red Army's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 08043657-n[26].
  • Japanese Red Army's UIA Open Yearbook organization website ID is recorded as 1100066836[27].

Body

Founding

+1971-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Japanese Red Army[14].

Leadership

Japanese Red Army's chairperson is recorded as Fusako Shigenobu[13].

Operations

Headquarters locations include Lebanon[7], a sovereign state[28], in Lebanon[29], founded in 1943[30] and Paris[8], a commune of France[31], in France[32], founded in -0300[33].

Dissolution

Japanese Red Army was dissolved in +2001-00-00T00:00:00Z[15].

Why It Matters

Japanese Red Army ranks in the top 5% of guerrilla_organization entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (880 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[34] It is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[35]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . state.gov. Retrieved . state.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [34] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [35] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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