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Daughter of ex-Red Army leader Shigenobu

TOKYO, Japan - Mei Shigenobu, one of the main characters in the documentary film "Children of the Revolution," is pictured in this undated photo. Her mother is Fusako Shigenobu, a former Japanese Red Army leader who is serving a 20-year prison sentence.

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Daughter slams rights abuse of convicted Japanese Red Army founder

TOKYO, Japan - May Shigenobu, daughter of Fusako Shigenobu, the convicted founder of the leftist Japanese Red Army group, speaks at a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan in Tokyo on March 8. May said her mother may be suffering from a parotid tumor but is being barred from receiving proper medical treatment in detention.

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Ex-Red Army head Shigenobu gets 20 yrs for French Embassy seizure

TOKYO, Japan - Mei Shigenobu (L), eldest daughter of Fusako Shigenobu, speaks at a press conference, after her mother, former leader of the Japanese Red Army, was sentenced by the Tokyo District Court to 20 years in prison for masterminding the seizure of the French Embassy in The Hague in September 1974.

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Ex-Red Army head Shigenobu gets 20 yrs for French Embassy seizure

TOKYO, Japan - Mei Shigenobu, eldest daughter of Fusako Shigenobu, former leader of the Japanese Red Army, arrives at the Tokyo District Court to hear a court ruling on her mother. The court later sentenced Fusako to 20 years in prison for masterminding the seizure of the French Embassy in The Hague in September 1974.

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Travel documents for hijackers' 3 daughters issued

BEIJING, China - Yukio Yamanaka shows off in Beijing on April 30 travel documents issued by the Japanese Embassy in Beijing to three daughters of former Red Army Faction members for entry into Japan. The former terrorists were granted political asylum in North Korea after they hijacked a Japan Airlines plane in 1970. Yamanaka, leader of a support group for them, filed applications for the documents at the embassy in December.

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Shigenobu denies charges in Hague embassy seizure

TOKYO, Japan - People seeking admission tickets for the first day of hearings in the trial of Japanese Red Army founder Fusako Shigenobu gather at the Tokyo District Court on April 23. Shigenobu pleaded not guilty to charges of illegal detention and attempted murder in the 1974 seizure of the French Embassy in The Hague.

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Shigenobu's daughter arrives in Japan

NARITA, Japan - Mei Shigenobu, 28, the daughter of Fusako Shigenobu, founder of the Japanese Red Army guerrilla group who was arrested in Japan last year after decades on the run, arrives at Narita airport on the evening of April 3 from her home in Lebanon. She did not say a word but repeatedly made peace signs to the press corps packed in the airport lobby.

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Police search room where Red Army's Shigenobu stayed

OSAKA, Japan - Police on Nov. 14 walk to a hotel in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, to search a room where Japanese Red Army leader Fusako Shigenobu spent the night before she was arrested last week after almost 30 years on the run.

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Shigenobu arrested outside Osaka hotel

OSAKA, Japan - This is a hotel in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, in front of which Fusako Shigenobu, founder of the Japanese Red Army, was arrested on the morning of Nov. 8.

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Police raid locations linked to 4 Red Army members

TOKYO, Japan - Police on April 7 search one of locations in Tokyo linked to four Japanese Red Army members arrested and detained in Japan last month after being deported from Lebanon. More than 30 locations in 11 prefectures linked to the four were raided by police that day. The four members are Masao Adachi, 60, Mariko Yamamoto, 59, Haruo Wako, 51, and Kazuo Tohira, 47.

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Lecture by ex-Red Army leader Shigenobu

Former Japanese Red Army leader Fusako Shigenobu (top) delivers a lecture at an event in Kyoto, western Japan, on Oct. 16, 2022. The 77-year-old was released from prison in May after serving a 20-year sentence for masterminding the 1974 seizure of the French Embassy in The Hague.

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Lecture by ex-Red Army leader Shigenobu

Former Japanese Red Army leader Fusako Shigenobu delivers a lecture at an event in Kyoto, western Japan, on Oct. 16, 2022. The 77-year-old was released from prison in May after serving a 20-year sentence for masterminding the 1974 seizure of the French Embassy in The Hague.

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Lecture by ex-Red Army leader Shigenobu

Former Japanese Red Army leader Fusako Shigenobu delivers a lecture at an event in Kyoto, western Japan, on Oct. 16, 2022. The 77-year-old was released from prison in May after serving a 20-year sentence for masterminding the 1974 seizure of the French Embassy in The Hague.

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Lecture by ex-Red Army leader Shigenobu

Former Japanese Red Army leader Fusako Shigenobu delivers a lecture at an event in Kyoto, western Japan, on Oct. 16, 2022. The 77-year-old was released from prison in May after serving a 20-year sentence for masterminding the 1974 seizure of the French Embassy in The Hague.

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Daughter of ex-Red Army leader Shigenobu

Mei Shigenobu, the daughter of former Japanese Red Army leader Fusako Shigenobu, speaks during an interview in Tokyo on May 26, 2022. Her mother, 76, will finish serving a 20-year-prison term for the 1974 seizure of the French Embassy in The Hague on May 28.

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Daughter of ex-Red Army leader Shigenobu

Mei Shigenobu, the daughter of former Japanese Red Army leader Fusako Shigenobu, speaks during an interview in Tokyo on May 26, 2022. Her mother, 76, will finish serving a 20-year-prison term for the 1974 seizure of the French Embassy in The Hague on May 28.

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Daughter of ex-Red Army leader Shigenobu

Mei Shigenobu, the daughter of former Japanese Red Army leader Fusako Shigenobu, speaks during an interview in Tokyo on May 26, 2022. Her mother, 76, will finish serving a 20-year-prison term for the 1974 seizure of the French Embassy in The Hague on May 28.

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Asama Sanso incident in central Japan in 1972

KARUIZAWA, Japan, April 20 Kyodo - A member of a Japanese riot police squad points his gun at a mountain lodge at the center of a hostage crisis known as the Asama Sanso incident in the Nagano Prefecture town of Karuizawa, central Japan, on Feb. 24, 1972. The police operation to rescue a woman taken as a hostage there by armed members of the United Red Army group lasted for 10 days until Feb. 28.

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Red Army hijacker may have been killed by colleagues

TOKYO, Japan - An internationally wanted Japanese terrorist leader has suggested one of the nine Red Army faction members who defected to North Korea after hijacking a plane in 1970 was killed by fellow hijackers, supporters of the leader say July 20 in Tokyo. Fusako Shigenobu, the 53-year-old leader of the Japanese Red Army she founded in 1971, said Takeshi Okamoto (file photo), who reportedly died around 1988, was ''purged just as with the case of the United Red Army,'' the supporters tell Kyodo News.

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Red Army hijacker may have been killed by colleagues

TOKYO, Japan - An internationally wanted Japanese terrorist leader has suggested one of the nine Red Army faction members who defected to North Korea after hijacking a plane in 1970 was killed by fellow hijackers, supporters of the leader say July 20 in Tokyo. Fusako Shigenobu, the 53-year-old leader of the Japanese Red Army she founded in 1971, said Takeshi Okamoto (file photo), who reportedly died around 1988, was ''purged just as with the case of the United Red Army,'' the supporters tell Kyodo News.

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Ex-Red Army members in N. Korea intend to return home

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Former members of the Red Army Faction who hijacked a Japan Airlines jet to North Korea in 1970 -- (from L to R) Moriaki Wakabayashi, 55, Takahiro Konishi, 57, Shiro Akagi, 54 and Kimihiro Abe, 54 -- show travel documents in Pyongyang on July 9 to apply for return to Japan. They entrusted the documents to Yukio Yamanaka, who heads their Japanese support group.

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Travel documents for hijackers' 3 daughters issued

BEIJING, China - Yukio Yamanaka shows off in Beijing on April 30 travel documents issued by the Japanese Embassy in Beijing to three daughters of former Red Army Faction members for entry into Japan. The former terrorists were granted political asylum in North Korea after they hijacked a Japan Airlines plane in 1970. Yamanaka, leader of a support group for them, filed applications for the documents at the embassy in December.

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Red Army member Yamamoto questioned

TOKYO, Japan - The photo shows Mariko Yamamoto, 59, a member of the Japanese Red Army, returning to a detention house in the Metropolitan Police Department in Tokyo on March 20 after being questioned at the Tokyo District Court. Along with three other Red Army members, Yamamoto was taken into police custody immediately upon being returned to Japan on March 18.

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Police vehicle carrying 3 Red Army members enters court

TOKYO, Japan - A police vehicle carries three Japanese Red Army members into the Tokyo District Court on March 20 for questioning. The three -- Haruo Wako, 51, Masao Adachi, 60, and Mariko Yamamoto, 59 -- were flown to Japan on March 18, ending more than 25 years on the run from Japanese authorities.

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The Red Cross for the Russo-Japanese War

An ambulance dog supplied by Major Edwin Richardson, the renowned dog trainer to the Russian army during the Russo-Japanese war in 1904. The top photographs show Richardson giving the dog a message, barking to attract attention to stretcher bearers and on sentry duty at an outpost. The bottom illustrations show dogs in use by the Germans and Italians. When the First World War broke out, the Germans had about six thousand trained dogs whereas the British had just one. Richardson pioneered the training of messenger dogs in Britain despite reservations from the military authorities. Eventually, he became commandant of the British War Dog School at Shoeburyness which successfully supplied hundreds of dogs who worked as messengers at the front. Date: 1904

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Chinese Red Cross

Chinese Red Cross nurses tend to wounded soldiers at the Chongqing (Chunking) front during the war with Japan Date: 1943

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The Long March

Chinese communists take a break to study during the Long March, a military retreat to avoid capture by the Nationalist Party forces Date: 1934 - 1935

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(1)Mei Shigenobu

TOKYO, Japan - Mei Shigenobu, daughter of Fusako Shigenobu who is a founder of the Japanese Red Army. The photo was taken June 29, 2002. (Kyodo)

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(2)Mei Shigenobu

TOKYO, Japan - Mei Shigenobu, daughter of Fusako Shigenobu who is a founder of the Japanese Red Army. The photo was taken April 23, 2001. (Kyodo)

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(1)Fusako Shigenobu

TOKYO, Japan - Fusako Shigenobu, a founder of the Japanese Red Army and a key figure in a series of international terrorist incidents in the 1970's. (Kyodo)

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(2)Fusako Shigenobu

TOKYO, Japan - Fusako Shigenobu, a founder of the Japanese Red Army and a key figure in a series of international terrorist incidents in the 1970's, was arrested Nov. 8, 2000. (Kyodo)

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(3)Fusako Shigenobu

TOKYO, Japan - Fusako Shigenobu, a founder of the Japanese Red Army who was a key figure in a series of international terrorist incidents in the 1970's, waved at reporters from a train after her arrest on Nov. 8, 2000. (Kyodo)

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(6)Fusako Shigenobu

TOKYO, Japan - Fusako Shigenobu (L), the founder of the Japanese Red Army and a key figure in a series of international terrorist incidents in the 1970s, smiles on arrival in Tokyo on Nov. 8 from Osaka Prefecture, where she was arrested earlier in the day.

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Red Army member arrested

Photo taken Feb. 20, 2015, shows Japanese Red Army member Tsutomu Shirosaki, who was arrested for attempted arson associated with a 1986 mortar attack in Indonesia as he returned to Japan following his release from a U.S. prison in January. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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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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Red Army member arrested

Photo taken Feb. 20, 2015, shows Japanese Red Army member Tsutomu Shirosaki, who was arrested for attempted arson associated with a 1986 mortar attack in Indonesia as he returned to Japan following his release from a U.S. prison in January. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Red Army Faction-linked Japanese man arrives in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Kuniya Akagi, who is linked to the Red Army Faction radical group, speaks to reporters at Beijing's international airport on June 5 after arriving there from Pyongyang on his way to Japan. Akagi, also known by the pseudonym Jun Ogawa, had been living in North Korea for the last 20 years. (Kyodo)

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Suspected Japanese Red Army member arrested on returning home

NARITA, Japan - Yu Kikumura, 54, believed to be a member of the Japanese Red Army, arrives at Narita International Airport, northeast of Tokyo, on April 19 following deportation from the United States shortly after his release from a Colorado prison. The Japanese police arrested him immediately on suspicion that he used a fake international driver's license when he was driving in the United States before being arrested there. (Kyodo)

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Daughter slams rights abuse of convicted Japanese Red Army found

TOKYO, Japan - May Shigenobu, daughter of Fusako Shigenobu, the convicted founder of the leftist Japanese Red Army group, speaks at a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan in Tokyo on March 8. May said her mother may be suffering from a parotid tumor but is being barred from receiving proper medical treatment in detention. (Kyodo)

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Ex-Red Army head Shigenobu gets 20 yrs for French Embassy seizur

TOKYO, Japan - Mei Shigenobu (L), eldest daughter of Fusako Shigenobu, speaks at a press conference, after her mother, former leader of the Japanese Red Army, was sentenced by the Tokyo District Court to 20 years in prison for masterminding the seizure of the French Embassy in The Hague in September 1974. (Kyodo)

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Ex-Red Army head Shigenobu gets 20 yrs for French Embassy seizur

TOKYO, Japan - Mei Shigenobu (L), eldest daughter of Fusako Shigenobu, speaks at a press conference, after her mother, former leader of the Japanese Red Army, was sentenced by the Tokyo District Court to 20 years in prison for masterminding the seizure of the French Embassy in The Hague in September 1974. (Kyodo)

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Ex-Red Army head Shigenobu gets 20 yrs for French Embassy seizur

TOKYO, Japan - Mei Shigenobu, eldest daughter of Fusako Shigenobu, former leader of the Japanese Red Army, arrives at the Tokyo District Court to hear a court ruling on her mother. The court later sentenced Fusako to 20 years in prison for masterminding the seizure of the French Embassy in The Hague in September 1974. (Kyodo)

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Ex-Red Army head Shigenobu gets 20 yrs for French Embassy seizur

TOKYO, Japan - The Tokyo District Court sentenced Fusako Shigenobu (in file photo), former leader of the Japanese Red Army, to 20 years in prison on Feb. 23 for masterminding the seizure of the French Embassy in The Hague in September 1974. The court determined Shigenobu, 60, had a hand in the embassy seizure undertaken by three other members of the Japanese Red Army, despite the fact that she denied her involvement. (Kyodo)

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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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Ex-Red Army member Maruoka dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows former Japanese Red Army member Osamu Maruoka, who died at a prison hospital in Japan on May 29, 2011, aged 60 while serving a life sentence for a series of hijackings. (Kyodo)

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Daughter of ex-Red Army leader Shigenobu

TOKYO, Japan - Mei Shigenobu, one of the main characters in the documentary film "Children of the Revolution," is pictured in this undated photo. Her mother is Fusako Shigenobu, a former Japanese Red Army leader who is serving a 20-year prison sentence. (Kyodo)

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Japanese Red Army member gets 12 year sentence over '86 Jakarta attack

Tsutomu Shirosaki, a Japanese Red Army member accused of attempted murder and other charges seen in this file photo, is sentenced to 12 years in prison by the Tokyo District Court on Nov. 24, 2016, over a 1986 mortar attack on the Japanese Embassy in Jakarta. (No sale after Feb. 24, 2017)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Prosecutors seek 15 years in prison for Japanese Red Army member

Undated photo shows Japanese Red Army member Tsutomu Shirosaki, 68, who has been charged with attempted murder in connection with a 1986 mortar attack on the Japanese Embassy in Indonesia. Prosecutors sought a 15-year prison term for Shirosaki at his trial at the Tokyo District Court on Nov. 1, 2016. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE AFTER Feb. 1, 2017)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese Red Army member pleads not guilty over 1986 Jakarta attack

Undated photo shows Japanese Red Army member Tsutomu Shirosaki, who pleaded not guilty on Sept. 21, 2016, during his first court hearing on charges including attempted murder in connection with a 1986 mortar attack on the Japanese Embassy in Indonesia. Shirosaki is accused of conspiring to launch two mortar shells at the Japanese Embassy from a hotel room. (NOT FOR SALE AFTER DEC. 21, 2016)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese Red Army member Okamoto wants to return to Japan

BEIRUT, Lebanon - Kozo Okamoto, one of three Japanese Red Army members who staged a 1972 machine-gun and hand-grenade attack at Tel Aviv's Lod Airport (now Ben Gurion Airport) shown during a recent interview with Kyodo News in Beirut. Okamoto, who has been granted political asylum in Lebanon, said he wants to return to Japan as soon as possible. (Kyodo)