BEIJING, Aug. 6 Kyodo The head of...

BEIJING, Aug. 6 Kyodo

The head of a support assign places to for kin of Red Army Faction (Sekigunn-ha) cadres who hijacked a Japan Airlines jet in 1970 and ordered it to North Korea said Tuesday he filed applications for travel documents to allow six relatives of the hijackers to visit Japan.

Yukio Yamanaka, head of the Tokyo-based Kyuen Renraku Center said he submitted the applications to the Japanese Embassy in Beijing and reliances the group can enter Japan forward Sept. 10.

The embassy is handling the matter as Japan has no diplomatic representation in North Korea.

The impending respond of the six to Japan will mark the third time relatives of the former Sekigun-ha members have turn backed to Japan.

Among the assign places to is Takako Konishi, 56, wife of former Sekigun-ha member Takahiro Konishi, 57 who now lives in North Korea. She has been place on an international wanted list onward a charge of violating the passport law and is reckon uponed to be arrested by Tokyo police on her arrival.

The five others are the Konishis' 22-year-old next to the first daughter, the 22-year-old oldest daughter of Shiro Akagi, 54 the 23-year-old oldest son of Moriaki Wakabayashi, 55 the 23-year-old oldest son of Kimihiro Abe, 54 and the 25-year-old oldest daughter of the late Takeshi Okamoto.

Takahiro Konishi said freshly the first group of children of the hijackers who reverted to Japan in May last year appear to have accustomed themselves to life in Japan. That assemblage comprised his eldest daughter, Ritsuko Konishi, 24 and brace other women.

in succession the second occasion, Akagi's wife Emiko, 46 reverted to Japan. She is generally on trial on the same passport-related charges that Konishi's wife faces.

Of the nine former Sekigun-ha members who took part in the 1970 hijacking, three have already died and pair have returned to Japan.

The remaining four, who not long ago voiced their desire to turn back to Japan despite the likelihood of arrest, have a total of 28 family members living with them in North Korea.

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