The oldest of these nine college students is only 27 years old, and the youngest is only 16 years old. They have an organization called the Red Army School. At that time, this organization was an internationalist fighter, opposed to imperialism, and was an ultra-left military organization in Japan. Its main purpose is to overthrow the Japanese "puppet" government and oppose western imperialism, which was later defined as a terrorist organization by the United States. At that time, they were severely attacked, arrested and assassinated by the Japanese government. As a result, these Red Army factions turned their attention to socialist North Korea.
On the morning of March 1970 and March1,these nine students boarded JAL flight 35 1 from Tokyo to banfu airport. When the plane took off in Mount Fuji, the nine college students took out guns, Japanese knives and other tools from their bags, immediately announced the hijacking and quickly controlled the crew to fly to North Korea. However, the crew claimed that there would not be enough fuel to fly to North Korea. Therefore, they hope to refuel at Banff Airport before taking off. Nine students have no choice but to agree.
When we arrived at Banff Airport, the news of hijacking spread like wildfire. Japanese police arrived, and the captain persuaded them to release 23 women, children, patients and elderly hostages first. Moreover, they agreed to their request, refueled the plane, and took off again in the afternoon 1, flew to the Korean peninsula and entered South Korea's airspace. At this time, in order to paralyze the hijackers, South Korea's Gimpo Airport sent a radio signal "This is Pyongyang, entering navigation" to the plane. At 3: 00 16, the plane landed at Pyongyang International Airport, and there were people wearing Korean military uniforms outside the cabin. There is not only a portrait of Kim Il Sung on his chest, but also a welcome slogan.
Just as nine hijackers were getting off the plane, one of them suddenly found an American plane at the airport and became suspicious. Someone hinted to the airport that only a huge portrait of Kim Il Sung would come out, but the North Koreans didn't have it at all, so they just showed it. At that time, South Korea was prepared to send special forces to rescue the hostages, which was rejected by Japan. At that time, Yamamura Shinjiro, the Japanese Minister of Communications who arrived at the scene, called the hijackers, hoping to replace the hostages with himself. The hijackers agreed and Yamamura Shinjiro boarded the plane.
On April Fool's Day 1, the plane took off again, this time directly to Pyongyang, North Korea. It quickly crossed the 38th parallel of north latitude and landed at Merrill Lynch Airport in North Korea at 7 o'clock. The hijackers immediately announced their surrender to North Korea. After laying down their weapons, the hijackers walked out of the cabin and handed over their weapons. Surprisingly, the so-called guns and Japanese knives are fake, just props. This hijacking was unprecedented, and the fake gun completed the whole hijacking.
Since then, Japan has strengthened aircraft security inspection, and prop guns and Japanese knives are not allowed to be taken on board. After the plane arrived in Pyongyang, North Korea issued a statement saying that "the plane and crew will be returned from a humanitarian perspective", and Yamamura Shinjiro and the other three crew members returned home safely. Nine hijackers stayed in North Korea and lived in the "Japanese village", and the authorities also married their daughters-in-law. At present, these nine people are still on Japan's international wanted list, but only four people are alive, and the remaining five people, three of whom died and two were arrested by Japan.
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