Mount Asama

Now this paper states that recent Greenland ice cores strongly suggest that there was a tightly packed collection of volcanic eruptions occurring between these years.

Researchers note that the Hekla eruption of 1104 in Iceland was once thought to be the source of various sulfate deposits around the globe, namely those in Greenland, but that ice cores from around 1110 could be pointed to another volcanic eruption occurring in 1108 at Mount Asama in Japan.

What's more is that they suggest that the Mount Asama eruption may have kicked off, or just been a part, of a several years long series of eruptions all over the globe.

And they even point to medieval chroniclers noticing that something was off with examples, such as the 1110 lunar eclipse seen in England.

They suggest that volcanic ash catching a certain wind could definitely produce a moonless night in England.

Daidoji was particularly excoriating towards the United Red Army, a communist left-wing terrorist group that had the previous year broken apart due to infighting and constant executions of its own members by rival factions of the groups seeking ideological unity.

One of those purges had seen the police get involved, culminating in a tense hostage standoff at Mount Asama.

That standoff would end in the death of one civilian and saw all five remaining members of the group arrested.

Daidoji was not impressed by this drive for ideological uniformity, which he saw as taking attention away from the actual armed struggle.