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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 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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1972 Japan

Various news in 1972 (Sapporo Olympics, United Red Army Asama Villa Incident, Osaka Cabaret Fire kills 118 people, 30 people die in train fire, etc.) Sapporo Olympics, Asama Villa Incident, Return of Okinawa to Japan, Birth of new Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka, Pollution (PCB, Minamata disease, etc.), People being torn apart at a demonstration, Date of shooting unknown, Release date: December 22, 1972.

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The United Red Army on the Brink

Five members of the United Red Army holed up in Asama Villa, a recreational facility for Kawai instruments, taking the wife of the janitor hostage. Exterior of Asama Villa, call for police, police carrying out bombing, mother responding to persuasion, date of shooting unknown, release date: February 25, 1972.

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The bullet that severed the

The United Red Army uses a huge crane and other equipment to break into the holed-up Asama Villa, arrest five people, and rescue hostages. Operation to rescue hostages, arrest of Allied Red Army members, date of shooting unknown, release date: March 3, 1972.

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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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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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Former United Red Army member Nagata dies on death row

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Hiroko Nagata, a member of the now-defunct United Red Army who was on death row over the murders of comrades in the early 1970s. Nagata died at the Tokyo Detention House aged 65 on Feb. 5, 2011, following a long battle with brain cancer, several sources close to her said Feb. 6. (Kyodo)

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Former United Red Army member Nagata dies on death row

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroko Nagata (L) leaves the Tokyo District Court in February 1973, where she was standing trial over the murders of comrades in the now-defunct United Red Army. Nagata died on death row at the Tokyo Detention House aged 65 on Feb. 5, 2011, following a long battle with brain cancer, several sources close to her said on Feb. 6. (Kyodo)

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Former United Red Army member Nagata dies on death row

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroko Nagata (C) is escorted to the Metropolitan Police Department in Tokyo in May 1972 after being arrested over the murders of comrades in the now-defunct United Red Army. Nagata died on death row at the Tokyo Detention House aged 65 on Feb. 5, 2011, following a long battle with brain cancer, several sources close to her said on Feb. 6. (Kyodo)