This some info and basic outline for the Japanese Red Army:
Japanese Red Army
The Japanese Red Army (JRA) are a Marxist militant group founded by Fusako Shigenobu early in 1971 in Lebanon. It sometimes called itself Arab-JRA after the Lod airport massacre. The JRA's stated goals were to overthrow the Japanese government and monarchy and to start a world revolution. Shigenobu had been a leading member of the Red Army Faction (Sekigun-ha) in Japan, whose roots lay in the militant new-left Communist League. Advocating imminent revolution, they set up their own group, declaring war on the state in September 1969. The police arrested many of them very soon, its founder and intellectual leader Takaya Shiomi was in jail in 1970. The Sekigun lost about 200 members and the very few left merged with a Maoist group to form the Rengo Sekigun or United Red Army in July, 1971. This group grew notable because its members slaughtered twelve of their own in its training camp hideout in the Mount Haruna in the winter of that year. A weeklong siege by hundreds of police, the Asama-Sanso incident ended this fiasco. The Red Army in Japan was finished. Fusako Shigenobu had left Japan with only a handful of dedicated people, but her group is said to have had about 40 members at its height and was from the Lod airport massacre on one of the best-known armed leftist groups in the world. The Japanese Red Army, Nihon Sekigun from 1971 had very close ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). By 1972 the United Red Army in Japan was finished and the Shigenobu group dependent on the PFLP for financing, training and weaponry.
"Sakai" Brigade
1x Tank Battalion
- 12x Type-61 Main Battle Tanks
- 13x Type-74 Main Battle Tanks
- 2x T-54/55 Main Battle Tanks
- 4x MT-LB Blade Engineer Vehicles
1x Motorized Infantry Regiment
1x Artillery Battalion (BM-14)
1x Engineer Company
1x Reconnaissance Company (BRM-1)
1x Transport Company (Ural-375D)
"Kikumura" Brigade
1x Tank Battalion
- 12x Type-61 Main Battle Tanks
- 13x Type-74 Main Battle Tanks
- 12x T-54/55 Main Battle Tanks
- 4x MT-LB Blade Engineer Vehicles
1x Motorized Infantry Regiment
1x Artillery Battalion (BM-14)
1x Engineer Company
1x Reconnaissance Company (BRM-1)
1x Transport Company (Ural-375D)