Haruo Wako, ex-Japanese Red Army member serving life sentence, dies at 75

Haruo Wako, a former Japanese Red Army militant group member sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the seizure of foreign embassies overseas in the 1970s, has died, sources close to the matter said Monday. He was 75.Wako died of unknown causes on Saturday at Osaka Medical Prison in western Japan after being transferred to the facility from Tokushima Prison, where he was serving his life sentence, the sources said.Wako was convicted for his involvement in the seizure of the French Embassy in The Hague with other members of the leftist revolutionary organization in September 1974, ta…READ FULL ARTICLE