Jun Nishikawa

Who is Jun Nishikawa?

Jun Nishikawa is a former member of the Japanese Red Army.

He was a member of the group that attacked the French embassy in The Hague in 1974. In 1975 he was arrested in Stockholm before being released later that year as part of a deal to free the hostages the Japanese Red Army had taken in the AIA building in Kuala Lumpur.

He has been linked with the Japan Airlines Flight 472 hijacking carried out by the JRA on September 28, 1977. As a demand they asked for the release of several JRA members, including Junzo Okudaira among others.

Following an investigation co-ordinated by Interpol, and involving Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru, he was re-arrested in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. He was eventually returned to Japan, was arrested, convicted, and sentenced to life imprisonment. Japan's Supreme Court said on September 13, 2011, that it turned down an appeal by Nishikawa against his sentence of life imprisonment.