Fusako Shigenobu (Japanese: 重信 房子, Hepburn: Shigenobu Fusako, born 28 September 1945) is a Japanese communist activist, writer, and the founder and leader of the now-disbanded militant group Japanese Red Army (JRA).
Born in Japan, Shigenobu became involved in New Left activism while attending night school at Meiji University in Tokyo. In 1969, she joined the Red Army Faction (RAF), a communist group that advocated immediate, armed revolution against the governments of the United States and Japan. Eventually becoming one of its senior leaders, Shigenobu played a significant role in establishing the International Relations Bureau for the organization.
In 1971, she helped found the JRA as an offshoot of the RAF. That same year, Shigenobu and the JRA relocated to the Middle East in an effort to start a world revolution, as well as to assist with the Palestinian struggle against Israeli occupation while working in concert with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). During the 1970s and 1980s, members of the JRA took part in a number of violent incidents, including bombings, mass shootings, and hijackings. Although Shigenobu did not directly participate in these activities, during this time she attained international fame as the leader and public-facing spokesperson for the JRA.
Throughout her years in hiding and later imprisonment, Shigenobu authored 10 books, including a book of poetry.
Following her arrest in 2000 after several years of hiding, Shigenobu was put on trial for passport forgery and alleged conspiracy involving an attempted hostage-taking operation at the French Embassy in The Hague in 1974. She was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2006 and released in 2022.
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so is there just like no way to deal with bed bugs. how tf are people meant to get rid of them completely ?
It’s a pain in the ass but totally possible. The key is laundry, steam, and diatomaceous earth. The pesticides don’t really work (unless you can actually hit a bug with the juice) because they don’t eat stuff off the floor and don’t lick their feet like roaches do.
I’ve had them three unrelated times, and took them out each time. I got pest control from my landlord but they were generally incompetent. I mostly used the pest control people to prove to my landlord that we still had them and that we were doing our part to solve the problem.
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I haven’t encountered them yet but keep getting worried about them. thanks for the info.
In that case, check the bed when staying in a hotel or hostel, wash thrift store clothes and dry hot, 20 minutes past bone dry, and don’t pick up upholstered furniture off the street.
All good advice.
afaik the hardest part is that the eggs can persist for a long, long time so you need to keep up vigilance for a long, long time.
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Tenting involves sealing the entire building and running heaters inside to get the internal temperature high enough to kill bed bugs and their eggs. It costs, though.
Putting double sided tape or sticky traps under the legs of your bed can serve as an early warning if bed bugs try to climb up the bed legs
Most bed bug strains have evolved a resistance to pesticides
diatomaceous earth is made up of tiny fragments of shells from ancient crustaceans or something. Point is; It’s sharp as shit, albeit on a micro level. When insects move through it is lacerates the waxy outer surface of their exoskeleton. This causes them to lose moisture faster than they can replace it and eventually die. DE work against all kinds of arthropods. They can’t evolve a defense bc it’s extremely lethal and works mechanically (I mean I guess they could but they haven’t).
Using DE effectively requires a dry environment as the DE becomes less effective as it absorbs water. This usually means vacuuming up the DE and re-applying it every few days
DE, being tiny sharp stuff, can irritate the lungs, skin, and eyes. Avoid coming in contact with it. Since it’s close to the ground it can be a problem for pets, so consider keeping your pets away from it.