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1. A terrorist group organized in 1970 to overthrow the Japanese government and monarchy and to foment world revolution; is said to have close ties with Palestinian terrorists
   "in 1972 the JRA was responsible for a massacre at an airport in Israel";
   - Japanese Red Army, Anti-Imperialist International Brigade

Type of: foreign terrorist organisation [Brit], foreign terrorist organization, FTO, terrorist group, terrorist organisation [Brit], terrorist organization

Encyclopedia: JRA