Police obtained an arrest warrant Wednesday for one of the nine Japanese radicals who hijacked a Japan Airlines plane to North Korea in 1970 on suspicion of abducting a Japanese woman in 1983, police officials said.
The Metropolitan Police Department said it will put Kimihiro Abe, 54, on an international wanted list and demand that North Korea, where he was granted asylum after the hijacking, extradite him to Japan, they said.
He is suspected of having a hand in the abduction of Keiko Arimoto in Europe to have her marry a Japanese man in North Korea. Investigative authorities in Japan believe members of the hijacking group were also involved in the disappearances of two Japanese men from Spain in 1980.