Fusako Shigenobu and ‘Free Palestine’

First and foremost, I don’t believe this woman called Fusako Shigenobu has any single understanding of what the land “Palestine” means and the consequences of what she has done to Western values.

She simply thinks, “I am going to “make a revolution in Palestine to Free Palestine” with the so-called Palestinians.” Her goal was clueless and reckless, but she does not show any remorse against all the terror attacks she was involved in to free the Japanese prisoners who were in jail.

She committed a number of terror attacks, but before this, there were campaigns against the Japan-US Security Treaty in the 1960s. The university campuses were filled with students protesting by using force against those who did not participate in the “riots.”

Those who participated in these riots stayed in former Imperial Universities’ university dormitories without paying rent, which made new young students avoid renting the university dormitories. They did not work and just drank alcohol, having nothing to do but to gather and “remember” their violent protests as “something revolutionary for Japan.” This is one of the sources of Fusako Shigenobu’s idea to make a revolution in the world, which was actually a heinous terrorism.

Fusako Shigenobu did have a number of interviews while she was in jail and has written many books. She was proud of her figure, as I saw her pose with a stringer and gun in 1972 in Lebanon. Her nickname was “Mona Liza of the Japanese Red Army. “I do not even feel like contributing to her royalty, even though I am interested in the content of her books.

The protests against the amendment of the Japan-US Security Treaty were based on a narrative that “the Security Treaty between the US and Japan will lead to the war.” I saw the explanation on Wikipedia, but there should be an amendment regarding why former Prime Minister Kishi, the grandfather of the late Prime Minister Abe, resigned after the amendment became effective. He waited for the time and resigned.

In 1968, the Japanese students started to mock the US protests over the Vietnam War. I know what many students were doing, but what these protestors did was embarrassing. They resorted to having orgies. However, they aimed to “go against the authoritarians” and seek “freedom.”

Even the university faculties explain that the students in the 60s who participated in the protests were “those who had ideal value.” I felt a sense of disgust and utter disagreement with this “explanation of students having ideal values.” What they did was destruction and assaults against students. Some are primarily against the political scientists in the Imperial Universities who try to cling to the left-wing values and “preach” to students the “wrong” history and values to this day. They also rationalize and promote “the mass student riots from the 1960s.”

Fusako Shigenobu was from the 1960s generation. To them, it was about “resisting” the existing authority and seeking freedom. Fusako Shigenobu is a symbol of destruction and terrorism.

In the 1970s, she became an international terrorist marked by many countries. However, first and foremost, she was the very woman who formed the Red Army members in Palestine and became the group’s supreme leader.

In 1972, the Japanese Red Army members committed the Lod Airport (now Ben Gurion Airport) Massacre. PFLP members planned the terror attacks, but for security reasons, they asked the Japanese Red Army to commit terror attacks as the security against the Japanese was lower than the Arabs. Now, PFLP is the Gaza hero journalist for some reason. Tsuyoshi Okuda (the husband of Fusako Shigenobu under the family register, Kyoto University), Yasuyuki Yasuda(Kyoto University), and Kozo Okuda (Kyoto University) committed the massacre on May 30th.

Fusako Shigenobu became the mastermind of the terror acts while she recalls “struggles.”

In 1974, one of her Japanese Red Army members, Yoshiaki Yamada, was arrested in France for possession of counterfeit banknotes of US dollars in 1977. In retaliation to this incident and for the purpose of freeing Yoshiaki Yamada, Junzo Okuda (brother of Tsuyoshi Okuda, who committed a massacre in Israel in 1972 and was shot to death), Haruo Wako(Keio University), Jun Nishikawa(arrested in Japan in 1997) commit a terror attack against the French Embassy in Hague, Holland. In Japanese, it is called “the Hague Case.”

PFLP terrorist group cooperated with the Japanese Red Army members. The member of PFLP, Ilich Ramírez Sánchez (Venezuelan nationality), had a bomb terror attack in Paris and put pressure on the Paris government. After negotiation, the Dutch government paid 300,000 dollars, and the Yamada and the three Japanese were able to flee to Yemen and to Syria. They were finally arrested in Sweden. In Syria, they had to abandon the 300,000 dollars they received from the Dutch government and everything they “won” from “their enemy, the West.”

Subsequently, in 1975, the Japanese Red Army members occupied the US Embassy in Kuararunpoor, Malaysia, and demanded the Japanese government release seven of their jailed members. I do not think it is appropriate to call the jailed members “activists.” They were not arrested in a clash with the police force. They commit domestic terror acts.

Prime Minister Takeo Miki at the time accepted this demand and allowed five out of six members to flee to Libya.

Two years later, in 1977, five Japanese Red Army members highjacked Japan Airlines, departing to Japan in Paris, France. The plane made an emergency landing in Dhaka, Bangladesh. This time, the armed members of the Japanese Red Army demanded nine members of their members detained in Japan. The Japanese government accepted the demand, and the negotiation ended. The Prime Minister who made the decision was Takeo Fukuda. Three of the members refused to be released in this negotiation. Do you think this is the Japanese Bushido spirit?

Until the Japanese Red Army committed a number of heinous terror acts in the 1970s, Fusako Shigenobu was somewhat “a resistance of beauty.” Fusako Shigenobu still talks about “Palestine.” She did her struggles for freedom and resistance to the national authority in her youth, according to her.

However, as a result of her orders and decisions, innocent people died. At the same time, it is an undeniable fact that Japanese terrorists trained Palestinian terrorists, including PFLP. Do you think this is something that can “only” be called a struggle?

On October 7th, during the Jewish religious holiday Simchat Torah, Hamas, and radical Islamic terror groups crossed the border and brutally murdered, executed, raped, and mutilated in Israel. As I recall, I was talking with my friend about Simchat Torah. She happened to be in France.

After a long silence, I realized that there was a terror attack crossing the border. I did not have words for what the terrorists did. Mutilating babies, burning people alive, taking out eyes from girls. Cut off an arm from a girl… Can you even think of how much blood she was losing while she was conscious of enormous pain until she passed away in the arms of the first responder after eight hours?

I have encountered some of the victims’ family members. What can you tell them, thinking of who taught all the terror methods the Japanese terrorists from the 1970s taught mainly in Lebanon? Would I say, “I’m sorry?” It is truly a nightmare to hear about all the brutal acts that Israel experienced. Fusako Shigenobu is not silent now, but she added violence and taught that violence can be a way of negotiation. The Japanese government has somehow accepted their demands. However, appeasement will never work, as seen in the Ukraine war.

It was not only 6 or 8 UNWRA employees who were involved in the October 7th massacre. The UNWRA teacher channel, composed of thousands of Palestinian UNWRA employees(including UNWRA teachers), screamed for joy over the murder of innocent Israeli civilians. However, by slightly increasing the number, the UN is trying to smear the facts of UNWRA employees’ reality. 90% of UNWRA employees are so-called Palestinians.

School facilities and hospitals were stored with stockpiles of weapons. Even tunnel entrances were found in civilian homes. I often or always wonder and feel some desperation, watching the war, thinking that the Japanese terrorists taught me how to negotiate.

Negotiate in the means of violence and blackmailing. This is one of the means the Japanese terrorists, the Japanese Red Army, taught them and said, “This works.”

Here is one clear intention of the Japanese diplomacy. “Care about the hostage and ceasefire.” Even after October 7th, there have been terrorist attacks in Israel by Palestinian terrorists. Why does Israel have to appease and accept these terrorist acts at the cost of their civilians?

Israel has a choice not to bow down to international extortions.