Fusako Shigenobu, leader of the Japanese Red Army terrorist group that went on an international hijacking and kidnapping spree about a half century ago, will be released from prison on May 28.

Tsutomu Shirosaki, a former Japanese Red Army member involved in a deadly 1986 rocket attack on the Japanese Embassy in Jakarta, died in Tokyo’s Fuchu Prison on July 20 after choking on ...

Red Army soldiers man the artillery ... and seven other generals were found guilty of plotting to betray the Soviet Union to Japan and Germany. All were shot. Many other high-ranking officers ...

- a terrorist group organized in 1970 to overthrow the Japanese government and monarchy and to foment world revolution; is said to have close ties with Palestinian terrorists ...