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"The Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War"
An "agitprop" style film made back in 1971 by Masao Adachi and Koji Wakamatsu, two suspected members or sympathizers of the Japanese Red Army, on their way back home from Cannes.
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The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine was behind the Lod Airport massacre committed by three members of the Japanese Red Army in 1972 and it was the most heinous crime the Communist group committed in its short history. The ringleader of the Arab-inspired attack was captured alive and imprisoned in Israel, while two others were shot dead on the spot. He was granted political asylum in Lebanon after he was released by Israel and he is likely to be sentenced to death upon returning home. The PFLP was also implicated in the Lockerbie bombing and ITV News exposed the culpability of the Palestinian terror organisation this month. Megrahi had been falsely imprisoned for decades in Scotland and it was right to release him early on medical grounds.

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To get an idea of what their message was in that video without having to watch the whole thing, you can skip to 50min 30sec and play from there to the end.

Also, Neojaponisme had an article about this a while back:
Neojaponisme, 'Japanese New Left in the 1960s and 1970s, Interview: Dr. Patricia Steinhoff Part 4, The Japanese Red Army', 13 Sep 2007 wrote:Japanese Red Army Background: In 1971, Shigenobu Fusako (重信房子) moved to Lebanon to form a Red Army training base under the auspices of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). On May 30, 1972, three Japanese members of this Lebanon-based cell departed a plane in Tel Aviv’s Lod airport, retrieved grenades and guns from their baggage, and commenced an attack that ultimately resulted in 24 fatalities and 76 injuries. Later the group around Shigenobu formally took the name Japanese Red Army (JRA) and perpetrated numerous terrorist actions around the world — including the hijacking of a JAL plane over the Netherlands (1973), an attack on a Shell facility in Singapore (1974), the storming of the French Embassy in the Hague (1974), hostage taking in Kuala Lumpur (1975), and a hijacking of JAL plane over India (1977).

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It goes without saying of course, JRA's theories had numerous fundamental problems and as such were all actually proven wrong. Which is to say, none of those operations produced anything even near the results they thought it would produce. PFLP however still exists today, and it has probably learned from those experiments.
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What happened to the JRA and why did they stop being active? Was it because most of their cadres got arrested or killed? Apparently there are still some old JRA men in Pyongyang who have lived there ever since they hijacked a Japanese airliner in the 1970s. This sort of leftist terrorism was very common in those days.
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Most members were apprehended in Japan and other countries such as Nepal and Bolivia from the late 1980s to late 1990s and they were sentenced to life in prison. The supreme leader was finally arrested in 2000 and she officially disbanded the organisation in 2001 while in prison. By the late 1990s, the group had serious problems with financing and recruiting as Communism lost its appeal to the masses with the fall of the Soviet Union and the Japanese Red Army was already inactive a decade before it was disbanded because of ageing sympathisers.

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Fusako Shigenobu, a Japanese founder and former leader of the now disbanded Japanese Red Army.

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