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A 1999 documentary by Rabih El-Amine Ahmad the Japanese, Lod-Roumié-Tokyo tells Okamoto's story from the perspective of five major personalities that knew him in Beirut. The 2009 Malaysian TV drama series Suatu Ketika... Soldadu Merah (Once Upon A Time... Red Soldier) is based on the 1975 Kuala Lumpur attack of the Japanese Red Army. [44]
Tokyo police on Monday stepped up the hunt for members of the Japanese Red Army wanted for their alleged role in attacks in the 1970s and 1980s, releasing a video with images of the aging ...
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).
The attack was a joint operation of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – External Operations (PFLP-EO), and the Japanese Red Army. The idea behind the joint effort was for the JRA to carry out attacks for the PLFP, and vice versa, in order to reduce suspicion. The plan worked, as Okamoto and his comrades attracted little ...
Haruo Wakō (和光 晴生, Wakō Haruo, June 12, 1948 – November 4, 2023) was a Japanese communist militant, member of the Japanese Red Army (JRA). Wakō attended Keio University, but dropped out in 1970. Later he worked for a time as an assistant for Kōji Wakamatsu's Wakamatsu Productions, a producer of leftist movies. [1]
Japan Air Lines Flight 351 was a scheduled passenger flight from Tokyo Haneda Airport to Fukuoka that was hijacked by members of the Red Army Faction of the Japan Communist League on March 31, 1970, [1] in an incident usually referred to in Japanese as the Yodogo Hijacking Incident (よど号ハイジャック事件, Yodogō Haijakku Jiken).
In the late 1960s, Japanese communist Fusako Shingenobu formed the militant Japanese Red Army terrorist group. Their goal was to start a worldwide communist revolution through the use of terrorism. [31] They committed multiple embassy attacks, airplane hijackings, bombings and taking hostages.
Tsuyoshi Okudaira (奥平 剛士, Okudaira Tsuyoshi, July 21, 1945 – May 30, 1972) was a Japanese communist activist and one of the leaders of the militant group Japanese Red Army (JRA). He was killed carrying out the Lod Airport Massacre near Lod, Israel on May 30, 1972. At the time of his death, he was married to JRA leader Fusako Shigenobu.