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	Japanese Red Army Founder Gets 20 Years (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Japanese Red Army founder Fusako Shigenobu, shown in this undated photo, was sentenced to 20 years by Tokyo District Court on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2006 for kidnapping and attempted murder in a 1974 attack on the French Embassy in the Hague, Kyodo News agency reported.
		Shigenobu was arrested in Japan in November 2000 after more than 25 years on the run, part of it in the Middle East.
		Shigenobu was arrested in western Japan in November 2000 after more than 25 years on the run, most of it in the Middle East.
	www.comcast.net /data/news/2006/02/22/331828.xml (288 words)

	Fusako Shigenobu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fusako Shigenobu (重信房子; Shigenobu Fusako, born September 3, 1945), was the leader of the Japanese Red Army.
		In February of 2006, she was convicted of kidnapping and attempted murder over a 1974 attack on the French embassy in The Hague, receiving a 20 year jail term.
		Shigenobu has one daughter, Mei Shigenobu, whose father was Palestinian.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fusako_Shigenobu (407 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Japan's Red Army founder is jailed
		Fusako Shigenobu, once dubbed the "Empress" of terror, was found guilty of orchestrating the 1974 seizure of the French Embassy in The Hague.
		Shigenobu, now 60, spent almost 30 years on the run in the Middle East before being arrested at a hotel in Japan in 2000, where she checked in disguised as a man.
		Shigenobu has said she regrets the violent means by which she sought revolution, but not the cause she espoused.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/02/24/wjapan24.xml (243 words)

	REFILING: Daughter slams rights abuse of convicted Japanese Red Army founder Asian Political News - Find Articles
		Fusako Shigenobu, the convicted founder of the leftist Japanese Red Army group, may be suffering from a parotid tumor but is being barred from receiving proper medical treatment in detention, her daughter and lawyer said Wednesday.
		May Shigenobu, 33, who was born in Beirut and whose father is a Palestinian, said the manner in which her 60-year-old mother has been treated during more than five years in detention shows a lack of respect for her human rights.
		Shigenobu was convicted of conspiring with three Red Army members to seize the embassy and take 11 hostages to secure the release of a group member detained in France, though the court said it is ''not clear'' when and where the conspiracy took place.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0WDQ/is_2006_March_13/ai_n16105268 (639 words)

	Urgent Action: Free Shigenobu Now! Stop oppression to alleged JRA supporters!
		Fusako Shigenobu, arrested yesterday morning in Osaka and then handed over to the Metropolitan Police Department on suspicion of hostage taking in the French Embassy siege in The Hague in 1974, was served a fresh arrest warrant on suspicion of attempted murder, also in connection with her involvement in the French Embassy attack.
		Fusako Shigenobu, the leader of JRA; Japanese Red Army who was arrested on Nov.9, told a court Thursday Nov. 16 that she expected to be arrested after returning to Japan but had hoped to have until next spring to complete her preparation.
		Shigenobu was taken into custody Nov. 8 as she emerged with two men from a hotel in Takatsuki, Osaka and subsequently arrested on suspicion of masterminding the Japanese Red Army's seizure of the French Embassy in The Hague on Sept. 13, 1974.
	www.ngy.1st.ne.jp /~ieg/struggle/japan/2000/urgent-e.htm (2748 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| Japanese Red Army leader jailed
		The conviction of Fusako Shigenobu closes one of the last chapters on a period of radical left-wing activism in Japan.
		Shigenobu has expressed regret for the deaths but defended the attack, which was carried out in co-operation with the militant Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
		Fusako Shigenobu returned to Japan six years ago, apparently frustrated with her life in Lebanon.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/4742028.stm (336 words)

	ISN Security Watch - Japanese Red Army founder convicted (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Shigenobu was found guilty of masterminding the seizure of the French Embassy in The Hague in September 1974.
		Shigenobu was captured in western Japan in 2000 after nearly three decades on the run.
		Prosecutors sought a life sentence for Shigenobu for the attack on the embassy in the Dutch capital, in which the French ambassador was taken hostage by militants demanding the release of an imprisoned comrade.
	www.isn.ethz.ch /securitywatch/details_print.cfm?id=14875 (271 words)

	La fille de Fusako Shigenobu invitée d'une école publique japonaise
		According to the Jiji Press, May Shigenobu, 28, was invited to an elementary school in Kanagawa prefecture near Tokyo on December 15, to tell students about Arab culture and to introduce Arab food.
		May Shibenobu's mother, Fusako Shigenobu, 55, left Japan in 1971 for Europe and came in contact with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), and set up a Lebanon-based group the same year - later to be called the Japanese Red Army.
		Fusako Shigenobu was arrested in Osaka in November 2000, after 30 years on the run from the Japanese authorities.
	moise.sefarad.org /belsef.php/id/183 (348 words)

	Japanese Red Army
		The group carried out several acts of international terrorism in the 1960s and 1970s, including a 1972 shooting massacre in Israel's Lod Airport[?].
		JRA leader Fusako Shigenobu was arrested in November 2000.
		She later renounced violence, and claimed the group would disband in 2001.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ja/Japanese_Red_Army.html (82 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The founder and leader of the Japanese Red Army organization, Fusako Shigenobu was sentenced in a Tokyo court to 20 years in jail.
		Shigenobu was convicted of kidnapping and attempted murder for the attack on the French embassy in Holland, in 1974.
		In 1972, the JRA was involved in the gunfire and grenade attack at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv.
	www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3220038,00.html (271 words)

	The Epoch Times \| Japanese Red Army Founder Gets 20 Years in Prison
		The Tokyo District Court handed down the ruling on Fusako Shigenobu, 60, known as the "empress" for her leadership of the organization, founded in 1971 in alliance with hardline anti-Israeli Palestinian factions.
		Prosecutors had demanded a life sentence for Shigenobu in connection with the attack on the embassy in the Dutch capital, in which the French ambassador was taken hostage by militants who demanded the release of an imprisoned comrade.
		Shigenobu was arrested in late 2000 outside a hotel in Osaka, western Japan, after eluding police across three continents for more than 25 years.
	www.theepochtimes.com /news/6-2-23/38573.html (478 words)

	Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) - Articles - Commentaries - Japanese Red Army Founder Arrested in Japan
		Fusako Shigenobu, 55, was arrested as she left a hotel in Takatsuki, near Osaka with two men.
		Shigenobu was on the international wanted list for at attack in 1974 on the French embassy in the The Hague.
		She is thought to have masterminded the attack, in which members of her group took the ambassador hostage in return for the release of an imprisoned comrade.
	www.ict.org.il /apage/5956.php (984 words)

	The Review - Asia Watch
		A revolutionary once admired by radicals for her beauty, Shigenobu moved to Lebanon in 1971 to form the ultra-leftist Red Army and launch her fight for world revolution.
		Shigenobu has not been charged in connection with any other incidents but police believe she was behind Red Army hijackings, kidnappings and bombings worldwide.
		Some Japanese suspect 55-year-old Shigenobu came home to try and revive the crippled group, although most believe her capture, which follows that of eight other key members since 1995, is its final death knell.
	www.aijac.org.au /review/2000/2512/aw2512.html (883 words)

	BBC News \| ASIA-PACIFIC \| Japanese Red Army leader arrested (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Fusako Shigenobu, 55, was seized outside a hotel in Takatsuki, near Osaka in western Japan, and taken to Tokyo for questioning.
		Ms Shigenobu was also on an international wanted list for the 1974 storming of the French embassy in The Hague in which the ambassador was taken hostage.
		Her arrest inside Japan came as a surprise because she was believed to be living in Lebanon where her group had based itself in the 1970s.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/1012780.stm (409 words)

	Japanese Red Army founder gets 20 years - International Terrorism - MSNBC.com
		Shigenobu sentenced for role in ’74 French Embassy seizure in The Hague
		TOKYO - The Tokyo District Court sentenced Fusako Shigenobu, former leader of the Japanese Red Army, to 20 years in prison Thursday for masterminding the seizure of the French Embassy in The Hague in September 1974.
		Shigenobu, a founder of the radical left-wing group, has denied involvement in the conspiracy to attack the embassy.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/11511046 (631 words)

	Movements of the Japanese Red Army and the "Yodo-go" Group
		Through contact with the "Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine", which was committing frequent terrorist attacks at the time, Fusako Shigenobu and other leading members of the JRA established their activity base in the Middle East.
		Fusako Shigenobu proclaimed the disbanding of the JRA from behind bars in April 2001.
		With the arrest of Fusako Shigenobu, the JRA is now placing the restructuring of its organization and the construction of new activity bases as its top priorities.
	61.117.156.245 /keibi/kokutero1/english/0301.html (515 words)

	Khaleej Times Online - Fusako Shigenobu
		TOKYO - Fusako Shigenobu, the radical whose Japanese Red Army carried out a decade of bloody attacks in the name of the Palestinians, faces life in prison when she is handed a court verdict here on Thursday.
		Fusako Shigenobu, then an employee of a soy sauce manufacturer and a student, participated in her first sit-in protest in 1965 amid worldwide campus tumult over the Vietnam War.
		Shigenobu, who had kept a low profile in Lebanon, suddenly re-emerged in November 2000 when police arrested her near a hotel in the western Japanese city of Osaka.
	www.khaleejtimes.com /DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/newsmakers/2006/February/newsmakers_February16.xml§ion=newsmakers&col= (660 words)

	Japanese Red Army founder convicted (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Fusako Shigenobu, former Japanese Red Army leader, was sentenced Thursday in Tokyo to 20 years in prison for a 1974 attack on the French Embassy in Holland.
		Shigenobu, a founding member of the Red Army, has denied the charges, claiming the incident was plotted by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
		Apparently operating in the Middle East and East Europe, Shigenobu was one of Japan's most-wanted terrorists until she was arrested in 2000 when she attempted to enter Japan with a false passport.
	story.japanherald.com /index.php/ct/9/cid/.../id/149297/cs/1 (193 words)

	Fusako Shigenobu - Wikipédia
		Fusako Shigenobu (重信房子; Shigenobu Fusako, née le 3 septembre 1945), était le chef du mouvement terroriste Armée rouge japonaise (Japanese Red Army).
		Fusako Shigenobu est aussi connu sous le nom d'Okudaira, qu'elle choisit après un faux mariage avec Takeshi Okudaira, un autre membre de l'Armée rouge qui mourut dans une attaque à Tel Aviv.
		Shigenobu, inculpée pour enlèvements et tentative de meurtre, a été condamné, le 23 février 2006, à 20 ans de prison pour la prise d'otages contre l'ambassade de France à La Haye en 1974.Le ministère public du tribunal de Tokyo avait requis l'emprisonnement à vie.
	fr.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fusako_Shigenobu (490 words)

	Japan / Red Army Arrest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Shigenobu's arrest comes as a surprise since she was thought to be in Lebanon, where the extreme leftist Japanese Red Army has maintained a base for about 30 years.
		As police took her to Tokyo for questioning she shouted to reporters that she was determined to fight on.
		Shigenobu is accused of masterminding deadly attacks, kidnappings and hijackings in the Red Army's long campaign against capitalism and the state of Israel.
	www.fas.org /irp/news/2000/11/irp-001109-rarmy.htm (384 words)

	Japanese Red Army
		The Japanese Red Army (日本赤軍, Nihon Sekigun) (JRA) is a terrorist group founded by Fusako Shigenobu in February 1971 after breaking away from the Japanese Communist League - Red Army Faction.
		The group had about 400 members at its height and once was one of the best-known armed leftist groups in the world.
		Shigenobu is accused of orchestrating attacks, kidnappings and hijackings.
	www.1bx.com /en/Nihon_Sekigun.htm (1157 words)

	Japanese Red Army (JRA) - █ FURTHER READING:
		Fusako Shigenobu led the JRA until her arrest in Japan in November, 2000.
		Details released following Shigenobu's arrest indicate that the JRA was organizing cells in Asian cities, such as Manila and Singapore.
		Longtime leader Shigenobu was arrested in November 2000 on charges of terrorism and passport fraud.
	www.espionageinfo.com /Int-Ke/Japanese-Red-Army-JRA.html (421 words)

	The Standard - China's Business Newspaper
		Her long brown straight hair and the Arab scarf wrapped around her shoulders were a vivid reminder of her mother Fusako Shigenobu, the captured founder of the once ruthless Japanese Red Army.
		The difference was that May Shigenobu did not carry a rifle, and she had a Middle Eastern appearance she inherited from her Palestinian father.
		In February, Fusako Shigenobu was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a Tokyo court.
	www.thestandard.com.hk /news_detail.asp?we_cat=9&art_id=14807&sid=7178946&con_type=1&d_str=20060323 (1451 words)

	Department of State Washington File: Text: Patterns of Global Terrorism 2000 -- Asia Overview
		Tokyo also took two others into custody: Yoshimi Tanaka, a fugitive JRA member involved in hijacking a Japanese airliner in 1970, who was extradited from Thailand, and Fusako Shigenobu, a JRA founder and leader, who had been on the run for 30 years and was arrested in Japan in November.
		In November, Osaka police successfully tracked down and arrested Fusako Shigenobu, a founder and leader of the JRA, who had been on the run for 30 years.
		Fusako Shigenobu, JRA founder and leader, was arrested in November.
	usembassy-australia.state.gov /hyper/2001/0430/epf105.htm (2359 words)

	Free Shigenobu Now! Stop The Oppression Of Alleged JRA Supporters! ...
		Fusako Shigenobu, the leader of the Japanese Red Army (JRA), was arrested
		Fusako Shigenobu, 55, the leader of the Japanese Red Army (JRA), was arrested
		Shigenobu was staying in Osaka indicate that she had entered and left Japan
	www.ngy1.1st.ne.jp /~ieg/icrm/icrm2000/icrm0011/0011n880.htm (1270 words)

	Textile mill fire leaves 52 dead \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		TOKYO –; The Tokyo District Court yesterday convicted and sentenced a founder of the Japanese Red Army terrorist group to 20 years in prison for kidnapping and attempted murder in a 1974 attack on the French Embassy in the Hague, court officials said.
		Fusako Shigenobu, 60, was found guilty of kidnapping and confinement and attempted murder in the 1974 case, a court spokesman said.
		Shigenobu had been arrested in western Japan in 2000.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20060224/news_1n24world.html (492 words)

	MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base
		In 1983, Shigenobu told the Japanese press that the group had "left the way of absolute terror." Despite this, the JRA continued to plan and execute attacks during the 1980s, although they were on a much smaller scale than the group's previous activities.
		Fusako Shigenobu was arrested in November of 2000, and while imprisoned, she announced, "I will disband the Japanese Red Army and launch new fights" (Gallagher, 49-52).
		Terrorism experts believe Shigenobu's declaration to be genuine, and the Department of State removed the JRA from the list of designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations in 2001.
	www.tkb.org /Group.jsp?groupID=59 (563 words)

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