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Bus hijacking in Japan

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken in the early hours of May 12, 2014, shows an intercity bus that was hijacked the previous night by a man holding scissors in Miyazaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan. The 45-year-old hijacker was arrested in Ebino in the prefecture in the early hours of May 12. Nobody among the crew and passengers was injured in the incident.

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Bus hijacking in Japan

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken in the early hours of May 12, 2014, shows an intercity bus that was hijacked the previous night by a man holding scissors in Miyazaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan. The 45-year-old hijacker was arrested in Ebino in the prefecture in the early hours of May 12. Nobody among the crew and passengers was injured in the incident.

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Hijacker's wife in N. Korea returns passport to gov't

TOKYO, Japan - Yukio Yamanaka shows to reporters the passport of Emiko Akagi, the wife of a Japanese plane hijacker living in North Korea, near the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on July 23 before turning it in to the ministry on behalf of Akagi. Yamanaka, head of the group supporting the hijackers and their families, turned the passport in as part of procedures to enable her to return to Japan in September.

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Kyoto city bus hijacked, suspect held in Osaka Pref.

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows the Kyoto city bus, which was hijacked by a 20-year-old cook on the night of Jan. 13. The hijacker, Katsutoshi Yamanaka, 20, was subdued around 10:25 p.m. after police stormed the bus in Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture.

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Hijacker of tourist bus in Greece commits suicide

ATHENS, Greece - Photo shows a Greek police headquarters where Christos Kendiras, who hijacked a tour bus carrying 33 Japanese on Nov. 4 near the port of Epidaurus about 180 kilometers southwest of the capital, jumped to his death Nov. 5 while in police custody. All the hostages were released unharmed.

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Japanese tourists in Greece freed, hijacker arrested

ATHENS, Greece - Katsuro Tanahashi speaks to reporters in Athens on the night of Nov. 4 how a tourist bus he was in was hijacked by a Greek gunman earlier in the day. Tanahashi is one of 33 Japanese, who were held hostage for eight and a half hours by the gunman, identified as Christos Kendiras, near the port of Epidaurus, about 80 kilometers southwest of Athens. All the hostages were released unharmed around 7 p.m.

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Six-year-old girl rescued unhurt in long ordeal

HIROSHIMA, Japan - A six-year-old girl, who had been held a knife-wielding 17-year-old hijacker of a highway express bus, is rescued safe at a service area on the Sanyo Expressway in Higashi-Hiroshima early on May 4. The photo shows the girl being carried in the arms of a police officer. She had been taking her first bus trip alone to visit her grandmother.

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Police storm hijacked bus, all safe

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Amid smoke bombs and flashes more than 30 police officers storm a hijacked highway express bus at a service area near Hiroshima at 5:03 a.m. on May 4, ending a 15-hour standoff with a teenager, who held a six-yea-old girl at knifepoint. One woman passenger was killed and five others were injured. All remaining hostages, which are nine passengers and a buss driver, were rescued safe. The hijacker has a history of mental illness, according to police.

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Hijacked bus stops at parking lot in Hiroshima Pref.

HIROSHIMA, Japan - An expressway bus hijacked by a knife-wielding man in Kyushu stops at a parking lot on the Sanyo Expressway in Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, shortly before 6 p.m. on May 3. Police blocked the expressway to lead the bus into the parking lot and were negotiating with the hijacker, believed to be in his late teens, in the evening. The bus was hijacked at around 1:30 p.m. the same day en route from Saga to Fukuoka and was heading eastward before coming to a stop.

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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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Body of slain ANA pilot returns home

YOKOHAMA, Japan - The body of an All Nippon Airways (ANA) pilot who was killed by a hijacker July 23 returns to his home in Umegaoka, Yokohama, just south of Tokyo, on July 24 after undergoing an autopsy. The 51-year-old pilot, Naoyuki Nagashima, was stabbed to death by a 28-year-old man who hijacked the ANA jumbo jet bound for Sapporo from Tokyo's Haneda airport.

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Man sent warning letters before hijacking ANA jumbo

TOKYO, Japan - The 28-year-old man who on July 23 hijacked an All Nippon Airways (ANA) jumbo jet sent letters in mid-June to the Transport Ministry, the Metropolitan Police Department, airline and airport management companies, and news organizations warning of lax security at Tokyo's Haneda airport, from which the plane departed. The photo shows a copy of his letter received by Kyodo News. The name and address of the hijacker are being withheld by police.

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ANA jumbo jet bound for New Chitose hijacked

TOKYO, Japan - Passengers leave a hijacked All Nippon Airways (ANA) jumbo jet at Tokyo's Haneda airport on July 23. The plane, which was hijacked while heading for New Chitose airport in Hokkaido from Tokyo, returned to Haneda at 12:14 p.m. The pilot died from injuries sustained while subduing the knife-wielding hijacker.

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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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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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Yuki in her father's arms arrives at grandparent's home

FUKUOKA, Japan - Yuki Ishibashi, 6, is carried in her father's arms in front of her grandparents' home in Fukuoka on May 5, one day after she was rescued safely by riot police from a bus hijacked in southwestern Japan on May 3. The bus hijacking resulted in the death of one passenger and injuries to at least four others. Police say a 17-year-old boy they arrested at the scene was the hijacker.

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Police storm hijacked bus, all safe

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Amid smoke bombs and flashes more than 30 police officers storm a hijacked highway express bus at a service area near Hiroshima at 5:03 a.m. on May 4, ending a 15-hour standoff with a teenager, who held a six-yea-old girl at knifepoint. One woman passenger was killed and five others were injured. All remaining hostages, which are nine passengers and a buss driver, were rescued safe. The hijacker has a history of mental illness, according to police.

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Hijacked bus stops at parking lot in Hiroshima Pref.

HIROSHIMA, Japan - An expressway bus hijacked by a knife-wielding man in Kyushu stops at a parking lot on the Sanyo Expressway in Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, shortly before 6 p.m. on May 3. Police blocked the expressway to lead the bus into the parking lot and were negotiating with the hijacker, believed to be in his late teens, in the evening. The bus was hijacked at around 1:30 p.m. the same day en route from Saga to Fukuoka and was heading eastward before coming to a stop.

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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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Arrest warrant issued for hijacker over 1983 abduction

TOKYO, Japan - Police obtain an arrest warrant on Sept. 25 for Kimihiro Abe (file photo), one of the nine Japanese radicals who hijacked a domestic plane to North Korea in 1970, on suspicion of abducting Keiko Arimoto to the country in 1983. Police will put Abe on the international wanted list and demand Pyongyang extradite him to Japan. (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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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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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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Hijacker's wife in N. Korea returns passport to gov't

TOKYO, Japan - Yukio Yamanaka shows to reporters the passport of Emiko Akagi, the wife of a Japanese plane hijacker living in North Korea, near the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on July 23 before turning it in to the ministry on behalf of Akagi. Yamanaka, head of the group supporting the hijackers and their families, turned the passport in as part of procedures to enable her to return to Japan in September.

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Kyoto city bus hijacked, suspect held in Osaka Pref.

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows the Kyoto city bus, which was hijacked by a 20-year-old cook on the night of Jan. 13. The hijacker, Katsutoshi Yamanaka, 20, was subdued around 10:25 p.m. after police stormed the bus in Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture.

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Hijacker of Kyoto city bus identified

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows Katsutoshi Yamanaka, a 20-year-old apprentice cook, who hijacked a Kyoto city bus on the night of Jan. 13. A resident of Kyoto's Fushimi Ward, the cook was subdued around 10:25 p.m. after police stormed the bus in Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture, about 25 kilometers southwest of Kyoto.

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Hijacker of tourist bus in Greece commits suicide

ATHENS, Greece - Photo shows a Greek police headquarters where Christos Kendiras, who hijacked a tour bus carrying 33 Japanese on Nov. 4 near the port of Epidaurus about 180 kilometers southwest of the capital, jumped to his death Nov. 5 while in police custody. All the hostages were released unharmed.

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Japanese tourists in Greece freed, hijacker arrested

ATHENS, Greece - Katsuro Tanahashi speaks to reporters in Athens on the night of Nov. 4 how a tourist bus he was in was hijacked by a Greek gunman earlier in the day. Tanahashi is one of 33 Japanese, who were held hostage for eight and a half hours by the gunman, identified as Christos Kendiras, near the port of Epidaurus, about 80 kilometers southwest of Athens. All the hostages were released unharmed around 7 p.m.

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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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Six-year-old girl rescued unhurt in long ordeal

HIROSHIMA, Japan - A six-year-old girl, who had been held a knife-wielding 17-year-old hijacker of a highway express bus, is rescued safe at a service area on the Sanyo Expressway in Higashi-Hiroshima early on May 4. The photo shows the girl being carried in the arms of a police officer. She had been taking her first bus trip alone to visit her grandmother.

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Wake for slain ANA captain held in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - A wake for Naoyuki Nagashima, the captain slain in the July 23 hijacking of an All Nippon Airways (ANA) jumbo jet, is held in Tokyo on the evening of July 29. Among the 1,500 people attending the wake were (from R) ANA President Kichisaburo Nomura, Nagashima's wife, Kumiko, Nagashima's son Eiji and daughter Ruri. Nagashima was stabbed by the 28-year-old hijacker.

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Man sent warning letters before hijacking ANA jumbo

TOKYO, Japan - The 28-year-old man who on July 23 hijacked an All Nippon Airways (ANA) jumbo jet sent letters in mid-June to the Transport Ministry, the Metropolitan Police Department, airline and airport management companies, and news organizations warning of lax security at Tokyo's Haneda airport, from which the plane departed. The photo shows a copy of his letter received by Kyodo News. The name and address of the hijacker are being withheld by police.

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Man sent warning letters before hijacking ANA jumbo

TOKYO, Japan - The 28-year-old man who on July 23 hijacked an All Nippon Airways (ANA) jumbo jet sent letters in mid-June to the Transport Ministry, the Metropolitan Police Department, airline and airport management companies, and news organizations warning of lax security at Tokyo's Haneda airport, from which the plane departed. The photo shows a copy of his letter received by Kyodo News. The name and address of the hijacker are being withheld by police.

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Body of slain ANA pilot returns home

YOKOHAMA, Japan - The body of an All Nippon Airways (ANA) pilot who was killed by a hijacker July 23 returns to his home in Umegaoka, Yokohama, just south of Tokyo, on July 24 after undergoing an autopsy. The 51-year-old pilot, Naoyuki Nagashima, was stabbed to death by a 28-year-old man who hijacked the ANA jumbo jet bound for Sapporo from Tokyo's Haneda airport.

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Body of slain ANA pilot returns home

YOKOHAMA, Japan - The body of an All Nippon Airways (ANA) pilot who was killed by a hijacker July 23 returns to his home in Umegaoka, Yokohama, just south of Tokyo, on July 24 after undergoing an autopsy. The 51-year-old pilot, Naoyuki Nagashima, was stabbed to death by a 28-year-old man who hijacked the ANA jumbo jet bound for Sapporo from Tokyo's Haneda airport.

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ANA jumbo jet bound for New Chitose hijacked

TOKYO, Japan - Passengers leave a hijacked All Nippon Airways (ANA) jumbo jet at Tokyo's Haneda airport on July 23. The plane, which was hijacked while heading for New Chitose airport in Hokkaido from Tokyo, returned to Haneda at 12:14 p.m. The pilot died from injuries sustained while subduing the knife-wielding hijacker.

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ANA jumbo jet bound for New Chitose hijacked

TOKYO, Japan - Passengers leave a hijacked All Nippon Airways (ANA) jumbo jet at Tokyo's Haneda airport on July 23. The plane, which was hijacked while heading for New Chitose airport in Hokkaido from Tokyo, returned to Haneda at 12:14 p.m. The pilot died from injuries sustained while subduing the knife-wielding hijacker.

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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.