Norio Sasaki

There's something genuinely unsettling about a guy who's been a wanted man for half a century and is apparently still out there. Norio Sasaki started out in the East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front's "Wolf" unit in the early 1970s, was tied to the 1974 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries bombing, and then — instead of lying low — somehow graduated to the Japanese Red Army and a role in the Dhaka JAL hijacking. Slipped back into Japan on forged passports not once but twice. As of the early 2020s, authorities were still updating his wanted poster, this time aging him up to look like your average 70-something retiree. Whether you see him as a true believer in a dead ideology or just a man who burned every exit behind him decades ago, the sheer stubbornness of still being at large is… something. Not admirable. Just strange and a little haunting.

Norio Sasaki (born August 27, 1948) is a Japanese individual from Otaru, Hokkaido. He attended Hokkaido Otaru Choryo High School. Public information about his activities and background is extremely limited.

Name (English)

Norio Sasaki

Name (Japanese)

佐々木規夫

Reading

ささき のりお

Born

August 27, 1948 (age 77)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Rat (子)

Origin

Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan

Occupation

Terrorist

High school

Hokkaido Otaru Choryo High School

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BD%90%E3%80%85%E6%9C%A8%E8%A6%8F%E5%A4%AB

Tags

• From Hokkaido
• Terrorist

Last updated

2026-06-02

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