, (born February 2, 1949) is a Japanese former militant who 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 acti ...
(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
United States
The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 ...
on April 9, 1993, for the
1988 Naples bombing. Okudaira is also a suspect in the June 1987
car bombing
A car bomb, bus bomb, van 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 roug ...
and
mortar attack against the
U.S. Embassy in Rome. Okudaira currently remains at large. Through the
Rewards for Justice
Rewards for Justice Program (RFJ) is United States Department of State's national security interagency program that offers reward for information leading to the location or an arrest of leaders of terrorist groups, financiers of terrorism, inclu ...
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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1949 births
Bombers (people)
Fugitives wanted by the United States
Japanese communists
Japanese mass murderers
Japanese Red Army
Living people
People from Shimonoseki