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North Korea continued to reject Japanese requests for extradition.
    On January 29, 1994, the news media reported that Takahiro Konishi, 49, ran a letter in a URA sympathizers’ newsletter stating that he wanted his eldest daughter, 16, who is stateless, “to study together with her Japanese friends in the land of her ancestors.” He became the sixth URA hijacker to express interest in returning to Japan. This was the first time a letter with a hijacker’s name reached Japan from North Korea. He thanked the sympathizers for their letters and gifts, and said he “was able to understand the warmness of Japanese relatives” at a meeting three and a half years earlier in Pyongyang. The seven families of the hijackers include 17 children. Konishi said he wanted to send his oldest daughter and her 14-year-old sister to Japan that summer.
    On March 24, 1996, Cambodian police arrested a person believed to be Yoshimi Tanaka, 47, wanted for the hijacking. He was arrested on the Cambodian border for possession of several million dollars (face value) of counterfeit U.S. currency. Authorities handed him over to Thai police in Pattaya. Japanese police went there to fingerprint him and confirm his identity. The arrested man attempted to cross the border from Vietnam in a North Korean Embassy Mercedes. He was carrying a North Korean diplomatic passport. Three other North Korean diplomats attempted to bribe a policeman with $50,000 to let them pass through the checkpoint. Warrants had been issued on January 2, 1996, for Tanaka and four Thai men after they used five counterfeit U.S. $100 bills to buy film from a photo shop in Nong Preu village in North Phattaya. Thai police had earlier arrested the four Thais and seized sophisticated counterfeiting equipment from a home in Ang Thong Province. They claimed that Tanaka had hired them to produce the counterfeit notes, which resembled the newly designed $100 bill.
    The Japanese terrorist was believed to have worked with Somchai Nanthasan and Prasong Pholthiphet to forge the $100 bills. Police also believed that Tanaka was helped to launder the bills by Kodama International Trading, run by Tang Cheang Tong, alias Shogo Kodama, a Japanese citizen of Khmer–Chinese origin.
    Bangkok’s Asia Times reported that in 1994, the Philippine military arrested Eduardo Quitoriano, 41, the Communist Party of the Philippines international liaison officer to the JRA. He allegedly was involved in a $1.6 million counterfeiting case that was wrapped up in Switzerland in 1990.
    On March 26, 1996, Tanaka was extradited to Thailand to face forgery charges. The United States, South Korea, and Japan sought extradition from Thailand. Tanaka was indicted on April 11, 1996. He denied involvement in the case before a court on April 12. He was scheduled to be tried in June 1996.
    The hijackers were reported in 2002 by the Washington Post to have been involved in efforts to lure Japanese, particularly women, to North Korea. Key to these efforts was Tamiya, leader of the hijackers, who died in 1995. He hoped to use the women to create another generation of revolutionaries in the Japanese Revolution Village in North Korea. In testimony in Tokyo District Court on March 12, 2002, Megumi Yao, 46, former wife of a JRA member, said that she helped lure Keiko Arimoto, 23, a Japanese woman, from Copenhagen to Pyongyang in 1983 as part of the scheme. The Post quoted her as saying, “The assignment was to scout for and detain Japanese, and train them into core members of a revolution.” Yao was testifying in the trial of another JRA ex-wife charged with passport law violations.
    As of this writing, the other hijackers are believed to still be in North Korea.
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Dawson's Field Multiple Aerial Hijackings
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