“Bet the ChiComs organized this.”
You might be on to something there.
Back in 1977, I was the USMC liaison officer to the Japanese police during demonstrations against the closing of a farm “road” (small dirt track) during an annual artillery firing exercise. There were 700 Okinawan police & 800 mainland Japanese police to deal with the protestors. I flew in one of the Japanese police Hueys looking for “student protestors” who might have sneaked into the impact area, hoping to become martyrs for the cause. The previous year one had climbed a tree in the impact area, only to be knocked out by a shell hitting nearby. Instant hero to the cause. He lived through it all!
We found one guy on the periphery of the impact area. The Japanese SWAT team on board rappelled down, grabbed & cuffed the guy and then threw him on board once we landed. Back at the police base, over boxed lunches (Japanese box lunches are a hoot!) the police explained that this guy, in his mid 30’s, was a long time, hard core Marxist agitator.
Everyone loves a good story over a bento and a cup of Sake,