Fusako Shigenobu, Japanese activist, founded the Japanese Red Army

Fusako Shigenobu is a Japanese communist activist, writer, and the founder and leader of the now-disbanded resistance group Japanese Red Army (JRA).

The Japanese Red Army was a militant communist organization active from 1971 to 2001. It was designated a terrorist organization by Japan and the United States. The JRA was founded by Fusako Shigenobu and Tsuyoshi Okudaira in February 1971, and was most active in the 1970s and 1980s, operating mostly out of Lebanon with PFLP collaboration and funding from Muammar Gaddafi's Libya, as well as Syria and North Korea.