[/floatr]AP: Police arrest Japanese man linked to hijackers
A Japanese man linked to terrorists who in 1970 hijacked a plane and ordered it to fly to North Korea was arrested Tuesday as he returned from Pyongyang, an official said. Kuniya Akagi, 52, was arrested at Kansai International Airport in Osaka for alleged passport violations, shortly after returning home for the
first time in 20 years via Beijing...He was arrested on charges of entering North Korea without Japanese government permission in 1987...Akagi, also known as Jun Ogawa, is the brother-in-law of one of nine hijackers belonging to the radical Japan Red Army group who forced a Japan Airlines jetliner to fly to Pyongyang from Japan in 1970. Nobody was hurt in the hijacking, the first ever to occur in Japan...Akagi is also suspected of kidnapping Japanese citizens decades ago, according to news reports...Akagi has denied any knowledge of the alleged abductions...more...
