Officer Atsuyuki Sassa was put in responsibility of calming down extremist Japanese Red Army radicals who took a woman hostage in Karuizawa, Nagano, in 1972. But the task was not without difficulties. To enter the lodge that held the single woman captive, Sassa had to battle frigid weather, contradictory opinions between the Tokyo Metropolitan Police and the Nagano Prefectural Police, and public opinion.
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Officer Atsuyuki Sassa was put in responsibility of calming down extremist Japanese Red Army radicals who took a woman hostage in Karuizawa, Nagano, in 1972. But the task was not without difficulties. To enter the lodge that held the single woman captive, Sassa had to battle frigid weather, contradictory opinions between the Tokyo Metropolitan Police and the Nagano Prefectural Police, and public opinion.
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