Japan Airlines Flight 351 was hijacked by nine members of the Japanese Communist League-Red Army Faction (a predecessor of the Japanese Red Army) on March 31, 1970 while flying from Tokyo to Fukuoka, in an incident typically referred to in Japanese as the Yodo Hijacking.
The hijackers wielding samurai swords and carrying a bomb took 122 passengers and seven crew members hostage, later releasing them at Fukuoka Airport and Seoul’s Kimpo Airport.
They then proceeded to Pyongyang’s Mirim Airport, where they surrendered to North Korean authorities, who offered the whole group asylum. Yoshimi Tanaka was arrested in Thailand and repatriated to Japan in March 2000. However, the other hijackers remain at large.
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