Wadie Haddad
Fusako Shigenobu had left Japan with only a handful of dedicated people, but her group is said to have had about 40 members at its height and was after the Lod airport massacre one of the best-known armed leftist groups in the world. The "Japanese Red Army", "Nihon Sekigun" from 1971 had very close ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and Wadie Haddad. By 1972 the United Red Army in Japan was finished and the Shigenobu group dependent on the PFLP for financing, training and weaponry.