- Japan Airlines Flight 351
Infobox Airliner accident
name=Japan Airlines Flight 351
Date=March 31 ,1970
Type=Hijacking
Site=Japan
Origin=Tokyo International Airport (Haneda)
Destination=Fukuoka Airport
Fatalities=0
Injuries=
Aircraft Type=Boeing 727-89
Operator=Japan Airlines
Tail Number=JA8315 "YODOGO"
Passengers=122 (excluding the hijackers)
Crew=7
Survivors=122 (excluding the hijackers)Japan Airlines Flight 351 was hijacked by nine members of the Japanese Communist League-Red Army Faction (a predecessor of the
Japanese Red Army ) onMarch 31 ,1970 while flying fromTokyo to Fukuoka, in an incident typically referred to in Japanese as the nihongo|Yodogo Hijacking|よど号ハイジャック事件|Yodogō Haijakku Jiken. The hijackers took 129 hostages (122 passengers and seven crew members), later releasing them atFukuoka Airport andSeoul 'sKimpo Airport . They then proceeded toPyongyang 'sMirim Airport , where they surrendered toNorth Korea n authorities, who offered the whole group asylum.Yoshimi Tanaka was arrested inThailand and repatriated to Japan in March 2000. However, the other hijackers remain at large; according to Japan's National Police Agency,Takamaro Tamiya and one other hijacker died in North Korea, whileTakahiro Konishi ,Shiro Akagi ,Kimihuro Uomoto ,Moriaki Wakabayashi , andTakeshi Okamoto still reside there; all except Okamoto were confirmed to have been aliveas of 2004 when they were interviewed byKyodo News . In June 2004, the remaining hijackers made a request to North Korean authorities that they be allowed to return to Japan.cite paper|url=http://www.npa.go.jp/keibi/kokutero1/english/pdf/sec03.pdf|format=PDF|date=2003|title=Movements of the Japanese Red Army and the "Yodo-go" Group"|publisher=National Police Agency, Japan|accessdate=2007-03-15]Moriaki Wakabayashi was an early member (bass player) in the long-running avant-garde rock band
Les Rallizes Dénudés .The future Roman Catholic archbishop and cardinal
Stephen Fumio Hamao was one of the passengers on this flight.See also
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Japanese people in North Korea References
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