Hijackers' daughters arrive in Japan

Hijackers' daughters arrive in Japan

NARITA, Japan - Three daughters of former Red Army Faction members, who hijacked a Japan Airlines (JAL) plane in 1970 and forced it to fly to North Korea, sit for a news conference after their arrival at Narita airport May 15. (From L to R) Azumi Tanaka, 22, Asaka Tamiya, 22, and Ritsuko Konishi, 23. On the flight to Narita, Tamiya, in an interview with Kyodo News, described the hijacking committed by her father and other members of the radical group as ''senseless'' and ''wrong.''

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