Junzo Okudaira

Junzo Okudaira is one of the harder names to sit with. A Kyoto University engineering student who somewhere along the way decided that the world's injustices required a gun instead of a ballot, he became one of the core figures of the Japanese Red Army — a group responsible for real deaths of real people, including the 1972 Lod Airport massacre. I don't romanticize any of it. What I keep turning over is the gap: a rigorous technical education, presumably a functioning mind, and yet a path that ended in international fugitive status and decades in hiding. History is full of intelligent people who chose catastrophically wrong. He's a case study in how ideology can convert capability into destruction, and the victims of his actions deserved better than to become footnotes in someone else's revolutionary narrative.

Junzo Okudaira (born February 9, 1949) is a Japanese individual from Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture. He studied at the Faculty of Engineering of Kyoto University. He is known in historical records as a terrorist. Most personal details remain private or unknown.

Name (English)

Junzo Okudaira

Name (Japanese)

奥平純三

Reading

おくだいら じゅんぞう

Born

February 9, 1949 (age 77)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Ox (丑)

Origin

Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Terrorist

University

Kyoto University, Faculty of Engineering

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A5%A5%E5%B9%B3%E7%B4%94%E4%B8%89

Tags

• From Yamaguchi Prefecture
• Terrorist

Last updated

2026-06-02

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