Yū Kikumura (菊村 憂, Kikumura Yū, born 1947 in Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan) was a member of the Japanese Red Army, an armed militant organization.
Police arrested Kikumura in Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam in 1986 when they found him carrying a bomb in his luggage. He was later deported to Japan but released on a technicality.
He was arrested on April 12, 1988 at a rest stop on the New Jersey Turnpike by a state trooper who thought he was acting susp...
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Yū Kikumura (菊村 憂, Kikumura Yū, born 1947 in Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan) was a member of the Japanese Red Army, an armed militant organization.
Police arrested Kikumura in Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam in 1986 when they found him carrying a bomb in his luggage. He was later deported to Japan but released on a technicality.
He was arrested on April 12, 1988 at a rest stop on the New Jersey Turnpike by a state trooper who thought he was acting suspiciously. Kikumura was found carrying three 18-inch (46-cm) pipe bombs loaded with gunpowder. Prosecutors said Kikumura had planned to bomb a military recruitment office in the Veteran's Administration building in lower Manhattan on April 14, the anniversary of the U.S. raid on Libya.
Kikumura was indicted on several counts of interstate transportation of explosive devices and passport violations. After a bench trial on stipulated facts, Kikumura was convicted on November 29, 1988. Then U.S. attorney Samuel Alito represented prosecution.
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