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Public Debut. Japanese police believe the Kuala Lumpur attack was masterminded by Fusako Shigenobu, 29, the daughter of an insurance salesman, who is suspected of being the Red Army's leader. The Red Army, numbering about 30 and dedicated to violent revolution, made its public debut in March 1970, when nine members hijacked a Japan Air Lines jet to Pyongyang, North Korea. Two years later, just before the Lod Airport massacre, authorities uncovered the bodies of 14 young men and women on remote Mount Haruna, 70 miles northwest of Tokyo. The 14, who had been tortured and left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRORISM: Again the Red Army | 8/18/1975 | See Source »

...Shigenobu Shima, Minister plenipotentiary and envoy extraordinary of Japan to the United States, presented the Order of the Sacred Treasure to Mrs. Warner. The award was conferred by the Emperor of Japan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Japanese Art Expert Cited Posthumously | 9/26/1955 | See Source »

...militarists' more vocal spokesmen is bullet-headed, bullet-riddled ex-Colonel Shigenobu Tsuji (30 times wounded in campaigns in China, Burma, Malaya and India). Tsuji crackles as he talks, speaking, as he puts it in the Japanese phrase, "with his drawers down." He is on the government's purge list, but makes no effort to hide his contempt for the purge and for Liberal Premier Yoshi-da's administration. He has written a book in which he seriously questions whether the U.S. can win an all-out war with Russia. Tsuji wants U.S. arms but he does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Don't Hug Me Too Tight | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

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