Fusako Shigenobu (重信 房子; Shigenobu Fusako, born September 3, 1945), was the female leader of the Japanese Red Army. She was arrested by the Japanese police in 2000 after returning to Japan secretly. September 3 is the 246th day of the year (247th in leap years). ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Japanese Red Army (日本赤軍, Nihon Sekigun) (JRA) is an international organisation founded by Ms. ... This article is about the year 2000. ...

Shigenobu was born in Tokyo, Japan. She worked part-time for Kikkoman Corporation and took night school,Meiji University, after she graduated high school. The modern skyline of Tokyo is highly decentralized. ... The Kikkoman Corporation (キッコーマン Kikkōman) (TYO: 2801) is an international company based in Japan. ... Meiji University (明治大学) is a famous private university in Ochanomizu, Tokyo. ...

She left Japan in 1971 to travel around Europe where she came in contact with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), and set up the what was later to be called the Japanese Red Army in Lebanon in February of that year. She was placed on the Metropolitan Police Department's international wanted list for the seizure of the French Embassy in The Hague, the Netherlands in 1974. In that incident, three Red Army members took 11 people hostage and forced the government of France to release one of their members. Her goal was to establish bases around the world and to start a revolution in Japan. 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) (Arabic الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين - al-Jabhah al-Shaabiyah li-Tahrīr Filasṭīn) is a secular, Marxist-Leninist, nationalist Palestinian organization, founded after the Six-Day War in 1967. ... External link Metropolitan Police Department Categories: Japan-related stubs | Tokyo | Law enforcement in Japan ... Arms of The Hague The Hague (with capital T; Dutch: Den Haag, or officially s-Gravenhage) is the administrative capital of the Netherlands, located in the west of the country, in the province South Holland of which it is also the capital. ... 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ...

She is also known by the surname Okudaira, which she registered herself in Japan after faking a marriage to Takeshi Okudaira, another Red Army member who died during an attack in Tel Aviv. Tel-Aviv was founded on empty dunes north of the existing city of Jaffa. ...

She was arrested in Osaka in November 2000 outside the Takatsuki Kyoto Hotel where she was staying at the time. The arrest came as somewhat of a surprise since she had been evading Japanese authorities for 30 years and was believed to be living somewhere in Lebanon, although she had been living in Osaka since July 2000 using her friend's name. After her arrest, she shouted to reporters "I am determined fight on." Osaka Castle (ÅŒsaka-jō) Location in Japan Osaka Aquarium (Kaiyukan) Osaka railway station The Osaka Tower (TsÅ«tenkaku) Osaka City   listen? (大阪市; ÅŒsaka-shi) is the third-largest city in Japan, with a population of 2. ...

She is on trial on various charges, including leading the French embassy seizure.

She has one daughter, Mei Shigenobu, whose father was Palestinian. She was not citizen of any country until March 2001, when she became a Japanese citizen. She only saw her mother at most two months out of the year when she lived in Lebanon, but called her mother a logical woman and that she "never raised her hand or raised her voice but she had a very good way of convincing you if you were wrong". As a child, she attended a strict Muslim school, although she states she is no longer a Muslim. She visited Japan for the first time in April 2001. She had gained a small amount of notoriety with her controversial visit of a public school in Kanagawa prefecture near Tokyo on December 15, 2001. She apparently gave a talk on Arab culture and food, but the Israeli embassy in Tokyo sent a complaint to the school, stating the talk was politically biased when she spoke of the Palestinian Authority. In 2002, she lived in Tokyo and worked as an English teacher in a cram school. 2001 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December Events: March 3 - A U.S. Air Force Materials Command C-23 Sherpa transport crashes during stormy weather in the U.S. state of Georgia, killing 21. ... 2001 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December Events: April 1: An EP-3E United States Navy plane collides with a Chinese Peoples Liberation Army fighter jet. ... The modern skyline of Tokyo is highly decentralized. ... December 15 is the 349th day of the year (350th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... The West Bank The Palestinian National Authority (PNA or PA) is a semi-autonomous state institution nominally governing the bulk of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (which it calls the Palestinian Territories). It was established as a part of Oslo accords between the PLO and Israel. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Cram schools (also known as crammers) are specialized schools that train their students to meet particular goals, most commonly to pass the entrance examinations of high schools or universities. ...

During her trial hearing in April 2001, Shigenobu stated that she was disbanding the Japanese Red Army, and said she would continue her fight through legal means. In May 2001, her book Ringo-no Ki-no Shita-de Anata-wo Umo-to Kimeta (I decided to give birth to you under an apple tree) was published which was written as a message to her daughter. 2001 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December Events: May 1 - Chandra Levy disapears while jogging. ...

References

• La fille de Fusako Shigenobu invitée d'une école publique japonaise By DPA originally published in Ha'aretz Daily
• Histoire : Le Japon prêt pour son examen de conscience? by Claude Leblanc from Editions Ilyfunet.
• Some terrorists are mothers, too, by Mami Fukae, published by Japan Today
• Japanese Red Army leader arrested from BBC On-line
• Shigenobu Kept Faith In Revolution, originally published by the Yomiuri Shimbun.