Ex-Japanese Red Army member imprisoned over Jakarta attack dies at 76

Tsutomu Shirosaki, a former militant in the Japanese Red Army, died Saturday while in prison for his involvement in a 1986 mortar attack on the Japanese Embassy in Jakarta, investigative sources said. He was 76.Shirosaki died after choking during a meal, the sources said Sunday.In 2018, the Tokyo High Court upheld a lower court ruling that sentenced him to 12 years in prison for conspiring with a person to fire two mortars toward the embassy in the Indonesian capital.Shirosaki was one of the members of the now-disbanded Japanese Red Army who was earlier released from jail in Japan in exchan…READ FULL ARTICLE