Japanese Red Army

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Japanese Red Army - 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; "in 1972 the Japanese Red Army was responsible for a massacre at an airport in Israel"

Anti-Imperialist International Brigade, JRA

act of terrorism, terrorism, terrorist act - the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear

Nihon, Nippon, Japan - a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building

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Anti-Imperialist International Brigade Japan JRA Nihon Nippon			Formed by Fusako Shigenobu (an RAF founding member) the Japanese Red Army was closely allied with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and its members were involved in several spectacular hijackings in the 1970s, most notoriously the 1972 Lod Airport attack. How not to overthrow the capitalist state by The Daily Star (Beirut, Lebanon) 1) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Subsequent evidence at Kikumura's trial proved that he was a member of the Japanese Red Army, a violent terrorist organization that trained in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon and had connections to Libyan terrorist aims. State and local law enforcement: contributions to terrorism prevention by McCormack, William / The FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin The first abduction came seven years after members of the Japanese Red Army hijacked a Japan Airlines passenger jet and forced it to land in Pyongyang, where the hijackers were granted political asylum. Japanese woman abducted by North Korea 'still alive' by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk			Japanese ivy Japanese lacquer tree Japanese lantern Japanese lawn grass Japanese leaf Japanese leek Japanese lilac Japanese lime Japanese linden Japanese maple Japanese medlar Japanese millet Japanese monetary unit Japanese morning glory Japanese oak Japanese oyster Japanese pagoda tree Japanese persimmon Japanese pink Japanese plum Japanese poinsettia Japanese privet Japanese quail Japanese quince Japanese radish Japanese Red Army Japanese red pine Japanese river fever Japanese rose Japanese slippers Japanese snowbell Japanese spaniel Japanese spurge Japanese stranglehold Japanese sumac Japanese table pine Japanese tree lilac Japanese umbrella pine Japanese varnish tree Japanese wax Japanese wistaria Japanese yew Japanese-speaking Japanglish Japanism Japanize Japanned Japanned leather Japanner Japanning Japannish			Japanese Private Tenant Association Japanese privet Japanese Professional Mahjong League Japanese Psychiatric Nursing Association Japanese Public Works Research Institute Japanese Published Unexamined Patent Application Japanese puppet Japanese puppet Japanese puppet theater Japanese puppet theater Japanese puppet theatre Japanese puppet theatre Japanese puppets Japanese puppets Japanese quail Japanese Quail Embryo Japanese Quail Lysozyme Japanese Quality Association Japanese quince Japanese quince Japanese quince Japanese quinces Japanese quinces Japanese quinces Japanese Radio Amateurs in Germany Japanese Radio Company Japanese radish Japanese Raisin Tree Japanese Rally Championship Association Japanese Real Estate Investment Trust Japanese Red Army Japanese Red Cross Japanese Red Cross Society Japanese red fox Japanese red fox Japanese red pine Japanese Registration of Certificated Auditors Japanese Research Group on Avian Influenza Japanese Research Institute for Advanced Information Technology Japanese Research Reactor Japanese Research Society for Gastric Cancer Japanese Resource Observation System Organization Japanese Restaurants Overseas Japanese Retinitis Pigmentosa Society Japanese Review of Cultural Anthropology Japanese river fever Japanese river fever Japanese rock Japanese Role Playing Game Japanese Role-Playing Game Japanese rose Japanese Russo War Japanese Russo War Japanese Samurai Japanese Samurai Japanese scallop Japanese School Teaching Assistant Program Japanese Science and Technology Information

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