(n) a terrorist group organized in 1970 to overthrow the Japanese government and monarchy and to foment world revolution; is said to have close ties with Palestinian terrorists, Syn. Anti-Imperialist International Brigade, JRA, Example:in 1972 the Japanese Red Army was responsible for a massacre at an airport in Israel
(n) a Marxist and Maoist terrorist organization in Germany; a network of underground guerillas who committed acts of violence in the service of the class struggle; a successor to the Baader-Meinhof Gang; became one of Europe's most feared terrorist groups; disbanded in 1998, Syn. RAF