Tokyo - After nearly three decades on the run, the leader of the extreme left-wing Japanese Red Army was captured yesterday. Fusako Shigenobu (55) was seized outside a hotel in the city of Takatsuki in western Japan and arrested for her alleged role in the group's violent crimes, police said.
The arrest inside Japan came as a surprise because she had evaded international law enforcement authorities for nearly 30 years and had been believed to be living in Lebanon. She had been on the international wanted list for allegedly masterminding the 1974 attack on the French embassy in The Hague.
