2ND LD: Shigenobu indicted in 1974 seizure of French Embassy+.TOKYO, Nov. 30 Kyodo (EDS (Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX, www.eds.com) Founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot (independent candidate for the President of the U.S. in 1992), EDS is the largest outsourcing and data processing services organization in the country. : RECASTING WITH POLICE'S PLAN TO MAKE ARREST ON OTHER CHARGE AND SHIGENOBU'S COMMENT) Japanese Red Army Noun 1. Japanese Red Army - a terrorist group organized in 1970 to overthrow the Japanese government and monarchy and to foment world revolution; is said to have close ties with Palestinian terrorists; "in 1972 the Japanese Red Army was responsible for a massacre at leader Fusako Shigenobu was indicted INDICTED, practice. When a man is accused by a bill of indictment preferred by a grand jury, he is said to be indicted. Thursday on charges stemming from her alleged masterminding of the 1974 seizure of the French Embassy in The Hague, prosecutors said. The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office said Shigenobu, 55, was charged with illegal detention and attempted murder in connection with The Hague case. Haruo Wako, now 52, and two other Japanese Red Army members stormed the embassy Sept. 13, 1974, allegedly on Shigenobu's orders. They confined the French ambassador and 10 others for up to 101 hours and fired shots at police, seriously injuring two officers. Meanwhile, the Metropolitan Police Department and Osaka prefectural pre·fec·ture n. 1. The district administered or governed by a prefect. 2. The office or authority of a prefect. 3. The residence or housing of a prefect. police are planning to serve a fresh arrest warrant on Shigenobu on suspicion of violating the Passport Law by traveling on forged passports, investigative sources said. Investigators suspect Shigenobu traveled frequently between Japan and Asian countries including China on forged passports in the names of two Japanese. Shigenobu released a statement through her lawyers saying, ''As a person who fought under the name of the Japanese Red Army in a responsible position, I cannot make remarks or take actions resulting in deserting my comrades who took part in our activities.'' Shigenobu, founder of the Japanese Red Army and a key figure in a series of international terrorist incidents in the 1970s, was arrested outside a hotel in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, on Nov. 8 after nearly 30 years on the run. Shigenobu, a native of Tokyo, dropped out of Meiji University and in 1969 became an active member of the Red Army Faction Noun 1. Red Army Faction - a Marxist and Maoist terrorist organization in Germany; a network of underground guerillas who committed acts of violence in the service of the class struggle; a successor to the Baader-Meinhof Gang; became one of Europe's most feared , a radical leftist left·ism also Left·ism n. 1. The ideology of the political left. 2. Belief in or support of the tenets of the political left. left group formed in the same year that advocated global revolution through armed violence. |
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