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The JRA's stated goals are to overthrow the Japanese government and monarchy and to start a world revolution.

The group is also known as the Anti-Imperialist International Brigade (AIIB), Nippon Sekigun, Nihon Sekigun, Holy War Brigade, and the Anti-War Democratic Front.

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• Hurao Wako , former leader (?)
• Osamu Maruoka , former leader, arrested in November 1987.
• Fusako Shigenobu, founder and leader. In November 2000, she was arrested in Osaka, Japan. This surprised of many people since she was thought to live in LebanonAlternate uses: see Lebanon (disambiguation The Lebanese Republic or Lebanon is a country in Southwest Asia, bordering the Mediterranean Sea. It is considered to be one of the fifteen lands that comprise the so-called " Cradle of Humanity". Lebanon is bor. Ms. Shigenobu is accused of orchestrating attacks, kidnappingIn criminal law, kidnapping is the taking away of a person against the person's will, usually to hold the person in false imprisonment (confinement without legal authority) for ransom or in furtherance of another crime. In the terminology of the common las and hijackingHijacking or highjacking is the forcible robbery from, or seizure of a vehicle in transit. Historically the term used to refer to robbery of trucks, other land motor vehicles car jacking and aircraft skyjacking. Contemporarily the term is primarily associs.
• Yu KikumuraYu Kikumura is a member of the Japanese terrorist group the Japanese Red Army. In 1986 Yu Kikumura was arrested at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam carrying a bomb in his luggage. He was later deported to Japan but released on a technicality. He was arrested was arrested with explosives on the New Jersey TurnpikeThe New Jersey Turnpike is a toll road in New Jersey and is one of the most heavily traveled highways in the United States. Part of it forms part of the interstate highway system. Construction of the Turnpike from conceptualization to opening took an asto and is serving a long prisonA prison is a place in which people are confined and deprived of a range of liberties. Prisons conventionally are institutions authorised by governments and forming part of a country's criminal justice system, or as facilities for holding prisoners of war sentence in the United States.
• Yoshimi Tanaka was sentenced to 12 years for the hijacking that ended in North Korea.
• Ekita Yukiko , a long-time JRA activist, was arrested in March 1995 in Romania and subsequently deported to Japan. She received a sentence of 20 years for attempted murder and violating the explosives law in a series of bombings targeting large companies in 1974 and 1975. The trial of Ekita was originally started in 1975 but was suspended when she was released from prison in 1977. Her release was part of a deal with the Japanese Red Army during the hijacking of a Japanese airliner to Bangladesh.
• Kozo Okamoto contributed to the attack on the Israeli Lod airport, now Ben Gurion International Airport, in 1972. He was jailed in Israel following the Tel Aviv airport attack. In May 1985, Okamoto was freed in an exchange of prisoners between Israeli and Palestinian forces. Subsequently, he was imprisoned in Lebanon for three years for forging visas and passports. The Lebanese authorities granted Okamoto asylum in 1999 because he fought against Israel.
• Masao Adachi, Kazuo Tohira , Haro Wako , and Mariko Yamamoto were also imprisoned in Lebanon on charges of forgery yet were sent to Jordan. As the Jordanian authorities refused to allow them into Jordan, they were handed over to Japan.
• The government hopes to extradite several others members from North Korea, which granted them asylum. The issue is one of several issues blocking the establishment of diplomatic ties between Pyongyang and Tokyo.
• Fusako Shigenobu, at one time labeled by critics as "the most feared female terrorist in the world", helped plan the 1972 incident at Lod Airport.

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