Japan Arrests Red Army Terrorist Upon His Return From U.S.

TOKYO, JAPAN - FEB. 20: Tokyo police on Friday arrested a Japanese Red Army terrorist for alleged arson and murder attempts in connection with a 1986 mortar attack on Japan's embassy in Indonesia, following his return to Japan after being released from a U.S. prison in January. Tsutomu Shirosaki, 67, was freed Jan. 16, before the U.S. Department of Justice began procedures to deport him to Japan. Japan has long had Shirosaki on an international wanted list. Shirosaki is suspected of attempting to set fire to a hotel room with a timed firing device in Indonesia's capital Jakarta in May 1986. His fingerprints were found in the room, leading him to be put on the list by Japan in October 1992. Investigators believe the arson attempt was aimed at destroying evidence of his alleged involvement in firing a mortar shell at the Japanese Embassy in Jakarta. In 1996, Shirosaki was arrested and handed over to U.S. law enforcement authorities in Nepal, where he was in hiding, for an alleged mortar attack on the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta in 1986, and extradited to the United States. In 1998, a U.S. court sentenced him to 30 years in prison for attempted murder and other crimes in connection with the mortar attack. His jail term was shortened for good behavior. A native of Toyama Prefecture, Shirosaki joined the Japanese Red Army, a militant group, after dropping out of the University of Tokushima. Shirosaki was arrested in Japan for attempted bank robbery and sentenced to a 10-year term in 1971. He was released in 1977 along with five other radicals in exchange for hostages taken by the group in the hijacking of a Japan Airlines jetliner in the Bangladesh capital of Dhaka, after five more were freed in another hostage crisis in Kuala Lumpur.
TOKYO, JAPAN - FEB. 20: Tokyo police on Friday arrested a Japanese Red Army terrorist for alleged arson and murder attempts in connection with a 1986 mortar attack on Japan's embassy in Indonesia, following his return to Japan after being released from a U.S. prison in January. Tsutomu Shirosaki, 67, was freed Jan. 16, before the U.S. Department of Justice began procedures to deport him to Japan. Japan has long had Shirosaki on an international wanted list. Shirosaki is suspected of attempting to set fire to a hotel room with a timed firing device in Indonesia's capital Jakarta in May 1986. His fingerprints were found in the room, leading him to be put on the list by Japan in October 1992. Investigators believe the arson attempt was aimed at destroying evidence of his alleged involvement in firing a mortar shell at the Japanese Embassy in Jakarta. In 1996, Shirosaki was arrested and handed over to U.S. law enforcement authorities in Nepal, where he was in hiding, for an alleged mortar attack on the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta in 1986, and extradited to the United States. In 1998, a U.S. court sentenced him to 30 years in prison for attempted murder and other crimes in connection with the mortar attack. His jail term was shortened for good behavior. A native of Toyama Prefecture, Shirosaki joined the Japanese Red Army, a militant group, after dropping out of the University of Tokushima. Shirosaki was arrested in Japan for attempted bank robbery and sentenced to a 10-year term in 1971. He was released in 1977 along with five other radicals in exchange for hostages taken by the group in the hijacking of a Japan Airlines jetliner in the Bangladesh capital of Dhaka, after five more were freed in another hostage crisis in Kuala Lumpur.
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