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3 Japanese airlines urged to reexamine security measures

TOKYO, Japan - Land, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Chikage Ogi (L) delivers papers to Japan Airlines President Isao Kaneko on Nov. 13, 2001, instructing Japan's three major airlines to urgently reexamine their compliance with measures to prevent airline accidents, hijacking and terrorism incidents. Standing behind Kaneko are representatives of All Nippon Airways and Japan Air System.

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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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Hijackers' daughters leave N. Korea for Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Three daughters of former Red Army Faction cadres are seen in photo taken by a supporter in March in Pyongyang. Shown are Asaka Tamiya (L), 22, daughter of Takamaro Tamiya, deceased leader of the hijackers' group; Azumi Tanaka (C), 22, daughter of Yoshimi Tanaka; and Ritsuko Konishi, 23, daughter of Takahiro Konishi. The three daughters, whose fathers defected to North Korea after hijacking a Japan Airlines plane in 1970, left Pyongyang on May 15 for Japan via China.

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Airlines to work out common security guidelines

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows presidents and representatives of Japan's 11 major airlines, who on Aug. 2 are ordered by Transport Minister Jiro Kawasaki to tighten security at airports and on airliners in the wake of the July 23 hijacking of an All Nippon Airways jumbo jet. The jet's captain, Naoyuki Nagashima, was stabbed to death by a 28-year-old, knife-wielding hijacker.

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3 Japanese airlines urged to reexamine security measures

TOKYO, Japan - Land, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Chikage Ogi (L) delivers papers to Japan Airlines President Isao Kaneko on Nov. 13, 2001, instructing Japan's three major airlines to urgently reexamine their compliance with measures to prevent airline accidents, hijacking and terrorism incidents. Standing behind Kaneko are representatives of All Nippon Airways and Japan Air System.

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Airlines to work out common security guidelines

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows presidents and representatives of Japan's 11 major airlines, who on Aug. 2 are ordered by Transport Minister Jiro Kawasaki to tighten security at airports and on airliners in the wake of the July 23 hijacking of an All Nippon Airways jumbo jet. The jet's captain, Naoyuki Nagashima, was stabbed to death by a 28-year-old, knife-wielding hijacker.

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Airlines to work out common security guidelines

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows presidents and representatives of Japan's 11 major airlines, who on Aug. 2 are ordered by Transport Minister Jiro Kawasaki to tighten security at airports and on airliners in the wake of the July 23 hijacking of an All Nippon Airways jumbo jet. The jet's captain, Naoyuki Nagashima, was stabbed to death by a 28-year-old, knife-wielding hijacker.

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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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1977, Japan.

The 1977 compilation of the Japan-Soviet 200 nautical mile problem. Children chase supercars. Mt. Usu eruption. Suguru Egawa refuses to join the Crown. Illustrations of a map of the 200 nautical mile area, a fishing boat in the sea, a Soviet ship, a meeting of party leaders, an illustration of a map of the four northern islands, a Japan-Soviet fishery agreement being exchanged, housewives arranging for food to be shipped directly from its place of origin, a pawn shop thriving, a supercar display event, happy children, a tardiness chart imitating a timetable, a long A long telephone receiver, a housewife using a gas stove for toilet gas, the eruption of Mount Usu, volcanic ash falling on the city, a home run by Oh, pitching by Taku Egawa, six Japanese Army personnel allowed to leave prison after the Japan Airlines hijacking incident, people resisting the Narita Airport issue and the Sanrizuka struggle. date unknown Date of shooting unknown, Release date: December 23, 1977.

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Japanese Red Army member Shirosaki

File photo taken in October 1977 shows Tsutomu Shirosaki (C), a Japanese Red Army member, after being released from prison along with other radicals in exchange for hostages taken by the group in the hijacking of a Japan Airlines jetliner in the Bangladesh capital of Dhaka. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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1970 JAL hijacker freed from prison due to illness

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshimi Tanaka, 58, who is serving a 12-year prison term for taking part in the hijacking of Japan Airlines flight in 1970, arrives at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Dec. 15 to enter a hospital in Chiba Prefecture after being released from the Osaka prison hospital. The Tokyo High Public Prosecutors Office is believed to have decided to suspend the sentence on Tanaka apparently finding his illness too serious to be treated in prison. (Kyodo)

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1970 JAL hijacker Tanaka dies due to illness

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshimi Tanaka (file photo taken in June, 2000), a former radical group member involved in the 1970 hijacking of a Japan Airlines jet, dies of liver cancer on Jan. 1 at a hospital in Chiba Prefecture after being released from prison last month due to the illness. He was 58. (Kyodo)

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Ex-Red Army Faction member gets 12 yrs for 1970 JAL hijacking

TOKYO, Japan - The Tokyo District Court on Feb. 14 sentenced former Red Army Faction member Yoshimi Tanaka (file photo) to a 12-year jail term for his involvement in the 1970 hijacking of a Japan Airlines plane. Tanaka and eight other Red Army Faction members hijacked the Boeing 727 on March 31, 1970, after it left Tokyo bound for Fukuoka, southwestern Japan.

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Ex-Japan Red Army member's life sentence to stand

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows former Japanese Red Army member Jun Nishikawa. Japan's Supreme Court said on Sept. 13, 2011, it has turned down an appeal by Nishikawa against his sentence of life imprisonment for his involvement in the 1977 hijacking of a Japan Airlines plane and the 1974 seizure of the French Embassy in The Hague. (Kyodo)

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Wife of alleged JAL plane hijacker released on bail

TOKYO, Japan - Emiko Akagi, whose husband was allegedly involved in a 1970 hijacking by Red Army Faction members of a Japan Airlines (JAL) plane to North Korea, leaves the Tokyo Detention House in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward on July 30. Earlier, the Tokyo High Court rejected an appeal by the prosecutors against a decision of the Tokyo District Court to grant her bail of 20 million yen. Akagi is on trial on passport violation charges.

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Gov't to allow hijackers' daughters to visit Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the daughters of former Red Army Faction members who sought political asylum in North Korea after hijacking a Japan Airlines plane in 1970. Their support group, releasing the photo to the media April 25, declined to give their names. It said the Japanese Foreign Ministry will issue travel documents to the daughters to allow them to visit Japan.

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Tanaka pleads guilty to 1970 JAL hijacking

TOKYO, Japan - Former Japanese Red Army Faction member Yoshimi Tanaka (file photo) pleaded guilty at the Tokyo District Court on Dec. 15 to hijacking a Japan Airlines (JAL) jet and forcing it to fly to Pyongyang in 1970.

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(CAPTION CORRECTED)Tanaka pleads guilty to 1970 JAL hijacking

TOKYO, Japan - Former Red Army Faction member Yoshimi Tanaka (file photo) pleaded guilty at the Tokyo District Court on Dec. 15 to hijacking a Japan Airlines (JAL) jet and forcing it to fly to Pyongyang in 1970.

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Tanaka extradited to Japan from Thailand

NARITA, Japan - Former Japanese Red Army member Yoshimi Tanaka is flanked by Japanese police officers at Narita airport, near Tokyo, on June 28. He was extradited from Thailand to stand trial for taking part in the 1970 hijacking of a Japan Airlines plane. Tanaka, who had been granted political asylum by North Korea after the hijacking, was arrested four years ago at the Vietnamese border on counterfeiting charges.

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Thai court decides to extradite JAL hijacker to Tokyo

BANGKOK, Thailand - Yoshimi Tanaka, 51, a one-time member of Japan's radical Red Army Faction, smiles as he walks into a Thai court in Bangkok on May 25. The court ruled that Thailand should extradite the fugitive wanted by Japan for the 1970 hijacking of a Japan Airlines (JAL) plane, putting an end to the man's nine-month fight against extradition.

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JAL hijacker ready to return to Tokyo possibly in June

BANGKOK, Thailand - Yoshimi Tanaka (C), 51, a fugitive wanted by Japan for the 1970 hijacking of a Japan Airlines plane, prepares to enter a Thai criminal court in Bangkok on May 16. He told the court he is ready to return to Japan to face terrorism charges, putting an end to a nine-month fight against extradition. Tanaka, a one-time member of the radical Red Army Faction, had been fighting extradition to Japan since August last year, saying the charges against him by the Japanese government are politically motivated.

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Thai court starts extradition process against highjacker

BANGKOK, Thailand - Yoshimi Tanaka, formerly a member of the now-defunct Japanese Red Army faction, walks Aug. 27 into the Bangkok Criminal Court to appear in a hearing on his extradition to Japan. Tanaka, 51, is wanted in Japan for an alleged role in hijacking a Japan Airlines jetliner to North Korea in 1970.

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Japanese hijacker acquitted

Yoshimi Tanaka (L), former member of the defunct Japanese extremist faction Red Army, wanted by Japan for the 1970 hijacking of a Japan Airlines flight to North Korea, raises his hand as he enters a courtroom in Chonburi, central Thailand, on June 23. He was acquitted of fraud conspiracy charges.

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Japanese hijacker acquitted

Yoshimi Tanaka (L), former member of the defunct Japanese extremist faction Red Army, wanted by Japan for the 1970 hijacking of a Japan Airlines flight to North Korea, raises his hand as he enters a courtroom in Chonburi, central Thailand, on June 23. He was acquitted of fraud conspiracy charges.