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Asama Lodge incident

KASUIZAWA, Japan - A man offers flowers at a monument in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, on Feb. 28, 2012, the 40th anniversary of the settlement of the Asama Lodge incident. Five radicals took a woman hostage at the lodge on Feb. 19, 1972. The police stormed the building and rescued the woman on Feb. 28 that year.

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Asama Lodge incident

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Asama Lodge in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, during the Asama Lodge incident in February 1972. Five radicals took a woman hostage at the lodge on Feb. 19, 1972. The police stormed the building and rescued the woman on Feb. 28 that year.

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Asama Lodge incident

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows a site in the then village of Kurabuchi, now part of Takasaki, in Gunma Prefecture, on March 12, 1972. The bodies of four of the 14 people killed in a purge of United Red Army radicals were found buried at the site. Five radicals who survived the purge committed the Asama Lodge hostage taking later in the month.

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Asama Lodge incident

NAGANO, Japan - Photo shows Asama Lodge in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, on Feb. 15, 2012. Five radicals took a woman hostage at the lodge on Feb. 19, 1972. The police stormed the building and rescued the woman on Feb. 28 that year.

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Asama Lodge incident

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows a site in the then village of Kurabuchi, now part of Takasaki, in Gunma Prefecture, on March 12, 1972. The bodies of four of the 14 people killed in a purge of United Red Army radicals were found buried at the site. Five radicals who survived the purge committed the Asama Lodge hostage taking later in the month. (Kyodo)

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Asama Lodge incident

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Asama Lodge in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, during the Asama Lodge incident in February 1972. Five radicals took a woman hostage at the lodge on Feb. 19, 1972. The police stormed the building and rescued the woman on Feb. 28 that year. (Kyodo)

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Asama Lodge incident

KASUIZAWA, Japan - A man offers flowers at a monument in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, on Feb. 28, 2012, the 40th anniversary of the settlement of the Asama Lodge incident. Five radicals took a woman hostage at the lodge on Feb. 19, 1972. The police stormed the building and rescued the woman on Feb. 28 that year. (Kyodo)

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Asama Lodge incident

NAGANO, Japan - Photo shows Asama Lodge in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, on Feb. 15, 2012. Five radicals took a woman hostage at the lodge on Feb. 19, 1972. The police stormed the building and rescued the woman on Feb. 28 that year. (Kyodo)

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Kin of 1970 JAL hijackers arrive in Japan

NARITA, Japan - Five children of Japanese radicals who hijacked a Japan Airlines (JAL) plane to North Korea in 1970 arrive at Narita airport, east of Tokyo, on Sept. 10 from North Korea. Takako Konishi, wife of Red Army Faction group leader Takahiro Konishi, who also arrived with them was arrested at the airport on suspicion of violating the passport law. (Kyodo)

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(2)Kin of 1970 JAL hijackers arrive in Japan

NARITA, Japan - Takako Konishi, the wife of Red Army Faction group leader Takahiro Konishi, arrives at Narita airport from North Korea with five relatives of Japanese radicals who hijacked a Japanese plane to the North in 1970. Konishi was arrested at Narita on suspicion of violating the passport law. (Kyodo)