Sassa Atsuyuki First director general of the Cabinet Security Affairs Office (1986–89). Born in Tokyo in 1930. Graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo, and joined the National ...

When radicals from Japan's Red Army took a woman hostage in the resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano in 1972, Officer Atsuyuki Sassa was put in charge of diffusing the situation. But the task had its ...

When radicals from Japan's Red Army took a woman hostage in the resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano in 1972, Officer Atsuyuki Sassa was put in charge of diffusing the situation. But the task had its ...

Their ideology is not welcome in Japan. We want more foreigners like you — Americans and Britons — to come here.” Atsuyuki Sassa, 79, makes no bones about what type of "gaikokujin" he’d prefer to see ...