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May Shigenobu: Daughter of the Japanese Red Army Published 27 October 2011 May Shigenobu is a journalist in Japan As the daughter of the Japanese Red...

TOKYO: The co-founder of the Japanese Red Army (JRA) militant group was released from prison Saturday after serving a 20-year sentence, and apologized for hurting innocent people. “I feel strongly that I have finally come out alive,” she said, welcomed by her daughter and a crowd of reporters and supporters in Tokyo. “I have hurt innocent people I did not know by putting our

Beirut, LEBANON: Kozo Okamoto’s life should have ended in 1972 when he took part in a suicide attack on Israel’s Lod airport that killed 26 people. Yet half a century and two stints in prison later, he is still alive, leading an uneventful existence as Lebanon’s first and only political refugee. Now a frail, grey-haired man, Kozo Okamoto is still wanted in his native Japan but

Shortly after the 1972 Lod airport massacre, in which 26 people were murdered, the Japanese terrorist was arrested and sentenced to life, but was eventually released in a 1985 prisoner exchange and granted asylum in Lebanon

Kozo Okamoto's life should have ended in 1972 when he took part in a suicide attack on Israel's Lod airport that killed 26 people.