Fusako Shigenobu, a former leader of the Japanese Red Army terrorist group, was released from a Tokyo prison on Saturday after serving a 20-year sentence for her involvement in a hostage incident at the French Embassy in The Hague in 1974, among other charges.
Upon her release from the Medical Correction Center in East Japan in Akishima, Tokyo, she issued in a written apology, saying, "We have caused unintentional damage and trouble to people who are not directly involved during the struggle of the Japanese Red Army." She concluded that the group's course of armed struggle at the time was wrong.
