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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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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 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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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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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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Wife of 1970 JAL hijacker gets 2 yrs over passport violation

TOKYO, Japan - Emiko Akagi (file photo), the wife of Shiro Akagi, a former member of the Red Army Faction group that hijacked a Japan Airlines passenger plane in 1970, was sentenced to two years in prison, suspended for four years, by the Tokyo District Court on Oct. 15. Akagi was charged with violating the passport law and forging documents. (Kyodo)

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JAL hijackers in N. Korea send tweets

Editor Reinin Shiino (C, back) and supporters of former Red Army Faction members, responsible for hijacking a JAL flight in 1970, hold a meeting in Tokyo on Jan. 20, 2015. They have been sending out tweets e-mailed from the members, now living in North Korea, about once a month since October 2014. There are some 4,000 Twitter followers. (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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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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JAL hijacker's sister arrested on return to Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Michiko Akagi, sister of a Red Army Faction member who helped commandeer a Japan Airlines (JAL) plane in 1970, returns to Narita airport from North Korea via Beijing on April 22. She was immediately arrested for allegedly violating the passport law. (Kyodo)

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Hijacker's wife gets suspended jail term over passport

TOKYO, Japan - Takako Konishi (in file photo), wife of a Red Army Faction hijacker, was sentenced to 18 months in prison, suspended for four years, at the Tokyo District Court on April 4 for failing to surrender her passport while living in North Korea. (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)

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Children, wife of 1970 JAL hijackers head back to Japan Tues.

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Six family members of the Red Army Faction group, which hijacked a Japan Airlines plane to North Korea in 1970, pose for a photograph at Pyongyang international airport on Sept. 10 before boarding a plane bound for Beijing. They will return to Japan after more than 20 years living in North Korea. (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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Photo of hijackers' kin released

TOKYO, Japan - A support group for the kin of Red Army Faction cadres who hijacked a Japan Airlines jet in 1970 and ordered it to North Korea released Jan. 26 this photo of five relatives taken on December 10 in Pyongyang. The group said the hijackers' two wives (far left and far right in back row) and three daughters (in front row) have expressed hope to move to Japan from North Korea.

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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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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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Hijacker Tanaka fails to appeal extradition from Thailand

BANGKOK, Thailand - Yoshimi Tanaka (in this file photo), a Japanese fugitive who was ordered by a Thai criminal court to be extradited to Japan on hijacking charges, will be handed over to Japanese authorities soon, possibly in a week or two, after his right to appeal expired June 9 without him exercising it. A Bangkok court ruled May 25 that Tanaka, 51, a former member of the ultra-leftist Red Army faction, be extradited to Japan to face hijacking and terrorism 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.

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Red Army member appears in court

Yoshimi Tanaka, 49, a member of Japan's Red Army guerrilla faction, answers questions from reporters during a recess of a public hearing that began at a Thai court Thursday June 18. He admitted he and eight other members of the Red Army hijacked a Japan Airlines plane to North Korea in 1970 but pleaded not guilty to charges against him for passing counterfeit U.S. banknotes in the Thai resort city of Pattaya in 1996.