A JRA's declared goals come to overthrow a Japanese government and monarchy and to start the globe revolution.

A class action is also referred to as a Anti-Imperialist International Brigade (AIIB), Nippon Sekigun, Nihon Sekigun, Holy War Brigade, & a Anti-War Democratic Front.

Members
Haruo Wako, former leader, arrested within February 1997 Osamu Maruoka, former leader, arrested inside November 1987. Fusako Shigenobu, founder and leader. Around November 2000, she was arrested in Osaka, Japan. This surprised numerous humans since she was thought to sleep in Lebanon. Shigenobu is accused of orchestrating attacks, kidnappings and hijackings. At in one case labelled by critics when "the most feared female terrorist in the world", helped project a 1972 incident at Lod Airport. Yu Kikumura was arrested with explosives on the New Jersey Turnpike and is serving a Xxii season prison sentence in the United States. Yoshimi Tanaka was sentenced to 12 years for the highjacking that ended within North Korea. Yukiko Ekita, a long-instance JRA militant, was arrested around March 1995 in Romania and subsequently deported to Japan. She received the phrase of Twenty years for attempted murder and violating the explosives law around the series of bombings targeting large corporations inside 1974 and 1975. A test of Ekita was originally began around 1975 however was suspended whenever she was freed from either prison within 1977. Her release was the portion of a treat sustaining a Japanese Red Army in the period of the highjacking of a Japanese airliner to Bangladesh. Kozo Okamoto was one of the liquidator included in the attack on the Israeli Lod airport, now Ben Gurion International Airport, in 1972. He was jailed around Israel as punishment a Tel Aviv airport attack. Inside Can 1985, Okamoto was freed within an exchange of captive between Israeli & Palestinian forces. After, he was imprisoned around Lebanon for three years for forging visas and passports. A Lebanese authorities granted Okamoto asylum in 1999 because he fought against Israel. Masao Adachi, Kazuo Tohira, Haruo Wako, and Mariko Yamamoto were also imprisoned inside Lebanin on charges of forgery however were sent to Jordan. When a Jordanian authorities refused to allow the babies into Jordan, it were handed above to Japan. Around January 2005, Yamamoto shoplifted dried cuttle (the Japanese popular relish taken sustaining beer) at the supermarket within Tokyo & was arrested. The food and drug administration hopes to extradite several others members from N Korea, which granted the babies asylum. A issue is one of many issues blocking a establishment of diplomatic ties between Pyongyang and Tokyo.

Terrorist activities
In a period of the 1970s and 1980s, JRA carried out a series of attacks around the world, including: March 31, 1970: The JRthe hijacked a household Japan Airlines Boeing 727 carrying 129 people at Tokyo International Airport. Eight Red Army members wielded samurai swords and carried a bomb in the period of Japan's virtually all notorious highjacking. A plane was forced to fly to Fukuoka and later Gimpo Airport in Seoul, where all the rider were loosed. It so flew to North Korea, where a Red Army members abandoned a plane & a crewmembers were freed. Tanaka is a single of nine Japanese Red Army members accused in the highjacking, however is the single one to exist as convicted. 3 of Tanaka's alleged accomplices later died inside Northerly Korea & 5 remain there. Based on data from Japan's National Police Professional, an additional confederate will too develop died around Northward Korea. May 30, 1972: The Lod Airport Massacre: A machine gun and grenade attack on Israel's Lod Airport in Tel Aviv, now Ben Gurion International Airport, killed Xvii population; astir Eighty others were wounded. 2 of the troika assailant so flushed themselves by having grenades. A bit of speculate that this work inspired afterwards Palestinian suicide attacks. July 1973: Red Army members led PFLP irregular within hijacking a Japan Airlines (JAL) plane above the Netherlands. A rider & crew were freed within Libya, where hijackers blew higher a plane. January 1974: Red Army attacked the Shell Oil facility in Singapore and took five hostages; simultaneously, a PFLP seized a Japanese embassy in Kuwait. the surety were exchanged for a ransom and safe passage to South Yemen in a Japanese Airlines plane. September 13, 1974: The French Embassy in The Hague, Netherlands was stormed. the ambassador & x more population were taken surety & a Dutch policewoman, Hanke Remmerswaal, was shot in the back, puncturing a lung. When drawn-out negotiatons, the surety were liberated within exchange for the release of a imprisoned Red Army member (Yatuka Furuya), $300,000 & the have of a plane. A plane flew a hostage-takers number 1 to Aden, South Yemen, where it were non accepted then to Syria. Syria did non assume surety view as money subversive, & forced the children to give higher their ransom. August 1975: A Red Army took additional than Fifty surety at a AIA building housing many embassies inside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. A surety involved a Usa consul & a Swedish charge d'intimacy. A gunmen won a release of 5 jailed comrades & flew using the two to Libya. September 1977: A Red Army hijacked Japan Airlines Flight 472 over India and forced it to land in Dhaka, Bangladesh. the Japanese Government emancipated 6 confined members of the class action & allegedly paid a $6m ransom. December 1977: The suspected only member of the army hijacked Malaysia Airlines Flight 653. A flight was carrying a Cuban ambassador to Tokyo Mario Garcia. A Boeing 737 so crashed killing tons onboard fallowing he shot two pilots & himself. Will 1986: A Red Army fired mortar rounds at the embassies of Japan, Canada and the United States inside Jakarta, Indonesia. June 1987: The similar attack was launched on the British and United States embassies in Rome, Italy. April 1988: Red Army members bombed the United states military recreational (USO) club in Naples, Italy, killing five. In the equivalent year, JRA operative Yu Kikumura was arrested with explosives on the New Jersey Turnpike highway, apparently to coincide with a USO bombing. He was convicted one charges & is serving the protracted prison phrase in the United States. the JRA launched a series of Seventeen bombings in buildings belonging to big corporations, including Mitsui & Co. and Taisei Corp, injuring 20 people. Eight humans were flushed in the bombing of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.'s head office building around Tokyo.