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The was a communist militant group founded by Fusako Shigenobu early in 1971 in Lebanon. After the Lod airport massacre, it sometimes called itself Arab-JRA. The JRA's stated goals were to overthrow the Japanese government and the monarchy, as well as to start a world revolution. The group was also known as the Anti-Imperialist International Brigade (AIIB), Holy War Brigade, and the Anti-War Democratic Front. ==Red Army Faction in Japan== Shigenobu had been a leading member of the Red Army Faction (Sekigun-ha) in Japan, whose roots lay in the militant new-left Communist League. Advocating imminent revolution, they set up their own group, declaring war on the state in September 1969. The police quickly arrested many of them, including founder and intellectual leader Takaya Shiomi, who was in jail by 1970. The ''Sekigun'' lost about 200 members, and the remnants merged with a Maoist group to form the ''Rengo Sekigun'' or United Red Army in July, 1971. This group became notable during the Asama-Sanso incident, when it purged twelve of its members in a training camp hideout on Mount Haruna, before a week-long siege involving hundreds of police. Fusako Shigenobu had left Japan with only a handful of dedicated people, but her group is said to have had about 40 members at its height and was from the Lod airport massacre on one of the best-known armed leftist groups in the world.〔(Japanese Red Army (JRA) Profile ) The National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism Terrorism Knowledge Base (online)〕 The ''Japanese Red Army'', ''Nihon Sekigun'' from 1971 had very close ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). By 1972 the United Red Army in Japan was finished and the Shigenobu group dependent on the PFLP for financing, training and weaponry. In April 2001, Shigenobu issued a statement from detention declaring the Japanese Red Army had disbanded.〔(Court uploads 20-yr prison term for ex-Japan Red Army head Shigenobu+. ) Retrieved on November 17, 2008.〕 A 2011 NPR report claimed some of the people associated with this group were imprisoned in a highly restrictive Communication Management Unit.〔(DATA & GRAPHICS: Population Of The Communications Management Units ), Margot Williams and Alyson Hurt, NPR, 3-3-11, retrieved 2011 03 04 from npr.org〕 The JRA was the only terrorist group to publicly claim responsibility for the September 11 attacks. Al-Jazeera and AFP both received anonymous phone calls from callers claiming responsibility for the 9/11 attacks in the name of the Red Army. The National Police Agency publicly stated that a successor group to the JRA was founded called Movement Rentai.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Movements of the Japanese Red Army and the "Yodo-go" Group )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Japanese Red Army」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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