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The Japanese Red Army (日本赤軍, Nihon Sekigun, abbr. JRA) was a militant communist organization active from 1971 to 2001. It was designated a terrorist organization by Japan and the United States.
The Red Army Faction (赤軍派, Sekigunha) was a militant communist organization active in Japan from 1968 to 1971, when it split to form two successor groups, the Japanese Red Army and the United Red Army.
Fusako Shigenobu (Japanese: 重信 房子, Hepburn: Shigenobu Fusako, born September 28, 1945) is a Japanese communist activist, writer, and the founder and leader of the now-disbanded terrorist group Japanese Red Army (JRA). [1] Born in Japan, Shigenobu became involved in New Left activism while attending night school at Meiji University in ...
The Lod Airport massacre [1] [2] was a terrorist attack that occurred on 30 May 1972. Three members of the Japanese Red Army recruited by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – External Operations (PFLP-EO), [2] [3] attacked Lod Airport (now Ben Gurion International Airport) near Tel Aviv, killing 26 people and injuring 80 others. [4]
The Japanese Red Army was a communist terrorist organisation dedicated to eliminating the Japanese government and monarchy and launching a worldwide revolution. The organisation carried out many attacks and assassinations in the 1970s, including the Lod Airport massacre in Tel Aviv three years earlier.
The incident began when five armed members of the United Red Army (URA), following a bloody purge that left fourteen members of the group plus one bystander dead, broke into a holiday lodge below Mount Asama, taking the wife of the lodge-keeper as a hostage. A standoff between Japanese police and the URA radicals took place, lasting ten days ...
The Laju incident, also known as the Laju ferry hijacking, occurred on 31 January 1974 in Singapore.Four armed men from the terrorist groups Japanese Red Army and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine attacked the Shell oil refinery complex on Pulau Bukom and later hijacked the ferryboat Laju and took its five crew members hostage.
Kozo Okamoto is the youngest child of a school principal. His older brother is Takeshi Okamoto, a member of the Red Army Faction, which hijacked an airliner in March 1970 to North Korea. He was a 24-year-old botany student when he was recruited to the Japanese Red Army. [1] He was later detained in Lebanon.