Japan arrests Red Army member on return from US

A member of Japan's ultra-leftist Red Army guerrilla group, which attacked embassies and hijacked planes in the 1970s and 1980s, was arrested Friday when he arrived back in Japan, police said. Tsutomu Shirosaki, 67, returned home after serving a prison term in the United States and then being deported from the country. Television footage showed Shirosaki in a blue windbreaker quietly walking through an arrival gate at Tokyo's Narita airport, escorted by Japanese police officers.
Shirosaki was arrested in 1996 in Nepal - where he had been hiding - on suspicion of attempted murder and arson involving the torching of a hotel room in Jakarta in 1986. It is alleged that the arson was an attempt to destroy evidence related to mortar attacks launched on the US and Japanese embassies in Indonesia.