CHUKAKU-HA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Chukaku-Ha mean? 

• CHUKAKU-HA (noun)
  The noun CHUKAKU-HA has 1 sense:

1. an ultra-leftist militant group founded in 1957 from the breakup of the Japanese Communist Party; includes a covert action wing

  Familiarity information: CHUKAKU-HA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHUKAKU-HA (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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Context example:

Chukaku-Ha attacks tend to cause property damage rather than casualties

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)