THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
July 21, 2024 at 18:28 JST
Fuchu Prison in Tokyo’s Fuchu city (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Tsutomu Shirosaki, a former Japanese Red Army member involved in a deadly 1986 rocket attack on the
While still serving time for robbery and other crimes, Shirosaki was released from prison in 1977 as an “extrajudicial measure” by the Japanese government after the so-called Dhaka Incident in which JRA members hijacked a Japan Airlines aircraft and demanded the release of detainees.
He was later captured and sentenced to 30 years in a U.S. prison for a rocket attack on the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta that was staged simultaneously with the one on the Japanese Embassy.
In 2015, after his release, he was arrested on arrival in Japan by Tokyo police and sentenced to a prison term for attempted murder and other crimes over the Jakarta Incident.
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