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CHUKAKU-HA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An ultra-leftist militant group founded in 1957 from the breakup of the Japanese Communist Party; includes a covert action wing
Example:
Chukaku-Ha attacks tend to cause property damage rather than casualties
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Instance hypernyms:
foreign terrorist organization; FTO; terrorist group; terrorist organization (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)
Domain category:
act of terrorism; terrorism; terrorist act (the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear)
Domain region:
Japan; Nihon; Nippon (a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building)
