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JAPANESE RED ARMY

Shiro Akagi
JAPAN
Sep 17, 2026
Shiro Akagi, suspect in 1970 plane hijacking, presumed dead
Internationally wanted, Akagi was living in a suburb of Pyongyang with five people, including other members of the hijacking group.
Kozo Okamoto attends a ceremony organized by Palestinian militants to mark the 50th anniversary of the Lod Airport attack in Beirut on May 30, 2022.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal / FOCUS
Jul 24, 2026
Kozo Okamoto, last surviving participant of 1972 Lod Airport massacre, dies
The airport massacre in Israel turned a little-known, communist-espousing band of a Japanese militant squad into an internationally notorious movement.
A front page report from November 1950 indicated that the government was in talks with French and British companies about launching television for the first time ever in Japan.
JAPAN / History / Japan Times Gone By
Nov 1, 2025
Japan Times 1950: Negotiations under way to bring TV to Japan
In November 1950, British and French officials were offering their broadcasting technology to help Japan launch its first television channel, pending a permit from the government.
In August 1950, The Japan Times reported on the canceling of Hiroshima's fifth annual peace ceremony due to the Korean War.
JAPAN / History / Japan Times Gone By
Aug 2, 2025
Japan Times 1950: Hiroshima peace festival canceled
In August 1950, the fifth anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the city’s annual ceremony praying for peace was canceled due to ongoing combat on the Korean Peninsula.
The front page of The Japan Times on Sept. 15, 1974, reports news of a terrorism incident in Europe.
JAPAN / History / Japan Times Gone By
Sep 1, 2024
Japan Times 1974: ‘Red Army’ trio seizes embassy
Fifty years ago, a terrorism incident plays out in Europe. Meanwhile, editions of The Japan Times look back on significant anniversaries.
Tsutomu Shirosaki, former member of the Japanese Red Army
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 21, 2024
Ex-Japan Red Army prisoner, 76, chokes on food and dies
Tsutomu Shirosaki was serving time for his involvement in the 1986 terrorist attack on the Japanese Embassy in Jakarta.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Mar 5, 2022
Japan Times 1922: Mrs. Sanger lands after investigation
Margaret Sanger, an American proponent for birth control, causes controversy as she arrives in Japan in 1922.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Nov 6, 2021
Does Japan breed leaders? Does it even need to?
A panel of four men at the tops of their fields discusses what it means to be a leader and comes to the conclusion that Japan doesn’t necessarily breed them.
JAPAN
Jun 8, 2017
Imprisoned Japanese Red Army founder Shigenobu holds out hope for revolution
The imprisoned founder of the Japanese Red Army admits her efforts to bring revolution to Japan in the 1970s and ‘80s ended in failure but she remains optimistic that public protest can check government moves to alter the pacifist Constitution.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jul 4, 2014
Mei Shigenobu’s words continue the fight for her mother’s cause
On her 8th birthday, Mei Shigenobu’s mother sat her daughter down and told her that she was the leader of the Japanese Red Army Faction, a group of revolutionary Marxists fighting to violently overthrow global capitalism. It was part of a very unconventional childhood.

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Famima Park Azabudai is a concept store by FamilyMart that combines convenience store staples with branded apparel, merchandise and a landscaped outdoor space.
Convenience stores, toilets and the allure of everyday Japan

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