East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front

East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front 東アジア反日武装戦線
Leader(s)	Masashi Daidōji
Dates of operation	1972-75
Motives	To foment an Anti-Japan revolution against the State of Japan
Active region(s)	Japan
Ideology	Communism Anti-imperialism Anti-Japaneseism
Status	Disbanded.

The East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front (東アジア反日武装戦線, Higashi Ajia Hannichi Busō Sensen) was a New Left Japanese armed struggle organization that carried out terrorist bombings targeting corporations in the 1970's, such as one against the offices of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in 1974 which killed eight. From the start investigators classified it as a far-left illegal group inspired by anti-Japanese anarchism. Its declared ideology is Anti-Japaneseism.

The roots of the East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front lie in the L-Class Struggle Committee which was formed in the spring of 1970 by Masashi Daidōji enrolled in history courses at the department of humanities of Hosei University. The L-Class Struggle Committee's name comes from the university class that Daidōji was affiliated with, and factionally it was classified as "non-sect radical", a Japanese New Left movement who refused to align with the communists or any other established group. Because he called upon the philosophy and literature students of other departments to participate, membership for a time swelled to more than 100 people, but along with the demise of the influential Zenkyoto, or All Campus Joint Struggle Committee, the L-Class Struggle Committee also naturally came to an end. Daidōji then dropped out of the university.

In August 1970 a "Research Group" was set up centering on Daidōji and the principal members of the L-Class Struggle Committee. This Group did intensive studies on the "evil deeds" of Japanese imperialism in Asia which fomented among them extreme anti-Japanese ideas. They used books such as Park Kyung Sik's Chōsenjin Kyōsei Renkō no Kiroku ("Records on the Forced Recruitment of Koreans") as their then current study material.

At the same time they also had an interest in urban guerrilla warfare and studied material on resistance movements.

Before long these two topics converged into the idea that they had to build an armed anti-Japanese movement. In January 1971 they were among other things undertaking their first experiments with homemade bombs.

To start off it was decided that they would blow up structures that were symbols of Japanese imperialism as part of the so-called "campaign struggle" making an appeal to the masses. They undertook three attacks, the bombing at the Koa Kannon temple on 12 December 1971, the bombing of the Soji-ji Ossuary on 6 April 1972, and the bombing of the Fusetsu no Gunzo and Institute of Northern Cultures on 23 October 1972. They considered these targets to be associated respectively with Japan’s participation in World War II, the Japanese colonization of Korea, and the subjugation of the Ainu of Hokkaido.

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