Fusako Shigenobu is the former leader of the Japanese Red Army, a communist guerrilla organization which carried out attacks against the embassies of various Western states, the US military, and multinational corporations from the 1970’s until the late 1980s...
During the early 1970s, she and several comrades traveled to Lebanon to take up armed struggle in solidarity with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), eventually leading to the creation of the Japanese Red Army. In 1972, three Japanese volunteers for the PFLP executed an attack on Israel’s Lod Airport (later known as the Lydda Struggle) in an attempt to assassinate an Israeli scientist who was responsible for developing biochemical weapons for use against the Palestinian people. Although Fusako was not present at the attack, she was forced to go into hiding after the JRA was designated a “terrorist” organization and PFLP and JRA members became targeted for assassination by Israeli death squads.
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