Sekigun-Ha backer applies for visas for hijackers' kin

Sekigun-Ha backer applies for visas for hijackers' kin

BEIJING, China - Yukio Yamanaka, a senior member of a Tokyo-based support group, Kyuen Renraku Center, for former Red Army Faction (Sekigun-Ha) members who hijacked a Japan Airlines (JAL) jet in 1970 applies at the Japanese Embassy in Beijing on Nov. 23 for visas for five of the hijackers' relatives living in North Korea.

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