Takatsuki, Osaka
Although internationally wanted, Shigenobu evaded capture until when the then 55 year old Shingenobu was captured by police outside a hotel in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture after entering Japan illegally through Kansai International Airport using a forged passport that she obtained by impersonating another person some time between 1997 and 2000. Shigenobu was using the alias, "Fusako Okudaira," with which the arresting officers greeted her in order to gain her attention when they approached her. The same day she was transported to Tokyo to be interrogated by the Metropolitan Police Department although it was reported that she refused to answer any of her interrogators' questions.