The Japanese Embassy in Beijing on Monday issued travel documents for entry into Japan to three daughters of former Red Army Faction members who were granted political asylum in North Korea after they hijacked a Japan Airlines plane in 1970, a leader of a support group for them said.
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| Three daughters of former Red Army Faction members have been issued documents (photocopied above) in Beijing that will let them enter Japan. |
Yukio Yamanaka said he received the documents at the embassy and faxed copies to the daughters in North Korea.
They are the 22-year-old daughter of Yoshimi Tanaka, 52; the 23-year-old daughter of Takahiro Konishi, 56; and the 22-year-old daughter of Takamaro Tamiya, the deceased leader of the hijackers.
The three were born and raised in North Korea after their mothers moved to the North in the late 1970s to marry the hijackers. Last October, they announced their wish to go to Japan, and in December Yamanaka filed applications for the documents at the embassy.