Radical’s Sister Returns From N. Korea, Is Held
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The sister of a Japan Red Army radical accused of hijacking a commercial airliner to North Korea in 1970 returned to Tokyo and was immediately arrested on charges of visiting the communist nation without approval from the Japanese government.
Michiko Akagi, 49, went to Pyongyang to stay with her brother, Shiro Akagi, in 1983.
Shiro Akagi, 55, and other Red Army members accused of forcing a Japan Airlines plane to fly to North Korea have lived in that nation’s capital since the hijacking.
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