abstract: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 State Department dropped the JapaneseRedArmy and the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement from its list of designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations.
North Korea remains on the State Department's list of State Sponsors of Terrorism for its harboring of several JapaneseRedArmy members wanted in Japan.