, (born February 2, 1949, in

Shimonoseki is a city located in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. With a population of 265,684, it is the largest city in Yamaguchi Prefecture and the fifth-largest city in the Chūgoku region. It is located at the southwestern tip of Honshu facing the Tsushim ...

), was one of the three

Japanese Red Army The was a militant communist organization active from 1971 to 2001. It was designated a terrorist organization by Japan and the United States. The JRA was founded by Fusako Shigenobu and Tsuyoshi Okudaira in February 1971 and was most active i ...

(JRA) members who attacked the French embassy in The Hague in 1974 and was the person who detonated a car bomb in front of a USO club in Naples in 1988.

Overview

In 1976, Okudaira was arrested along with Toshihiko Hidaka on suspicion of a forged passport when he entered Jordan. Hidaka committed suicide during a police investigation. Okudaira was deported to Japan on October 13, 1976. He was released from the country after extrajudicial measures in the Dhaka Japan Airlines Hijacking case. Okudaira was convicted ''in absentia'' in the

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on April 9, 1993, for the

1988 Naples bombing The 1988 Naples bombing was a terrorist attack against a United Service Organizations (USO) military recreational club in downtown Naples, Italy on 14 April 1988. A powerful car bomb exploded in front of the USO club in Calata San Marco which cau ...

. Okudaira is also a suspect in the June 1987

car bombing A car bomb, bus bomb, lorry bomb, or truck bomb, also known as a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED), is an improvised explosive device designed to be detonated in an automobile or other vehicles. Car bombs can be roughly divided ...

and mortar attack against the U.S. Embassy in Rome. Okudaira currently remains at large. Through the

Rewards for Justice The Rewards for Justice Program (RFJ) is the counterterrorism and counterintelligence platform administered by the U.S. Department of State's Diplomatic Security Service agency. The Rewards For Justice program is seeking information leading to the ...

program, the United States government is offering up to $5,000,000 for information leading to his arrest. the details of Okudaira's life and/or death are unknown, and he is wanted internationally. Photographs distributed after April 2010 were later replaced with those taken in 1998.

References

New York Times April 16, 1988
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