Shiro Akagi, Suspect in 1970 Plane Hijacking, Presumed Dead
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Japanese media reported on the 17th that one of the suspects in the so-called "Yodo-go hijacking incident," in which a civilian aircraft was hijacked in Japan in the 1970s and crossed into North Korea via South Korea, appears to have died in Pyongyang. According to a compilation of media reports including NHK, the Japanese suspect who carried out the Yodo-go hijacking incident
(Tokyo=Yonhap News) Correspondent Cho Seong-mi = One of the suspects in the 'Yodo-go hijacking incident,' in which a Japanese communist extremist group hijacked an aircraft and crossed into North Korea, ... in North Korea
Rome, 17 Sep. (askanews) . It is one of the most surreal and rocambolesque stories of the era of the Cold War, that of the Yodo-go, the plane of Japan Airlines hijacked in 1970 by nine militants of the extreme Japanese left and carried up to North Korea. Over 56 years after that seizure, one of the protagonists, Shiro Akagi, could have died [...]
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