Moriaki Wakabayashi

Moriaki Wakabayashi (若林 盛亮, Wakabayashi Moriaki, born February 26, 1947) is a Japanese former rock and roll musician and airline hijacker currently residing in self-imposed exile in North Korea. In the late 1960s, Wakabayashi was a founding member of the Japanese avant-garde rock band Les Rallizes Dénudés ("The Naked Suitcases"), serving as the band's bassist. Wakabayashi was a member of the "Yodogō Group" of the radical New Left Japan Communist League's "Red Army Faction" that carried out the hijacking of Japan Airlines Flight 351 in 1970, forcing the plane to fly to North Korea, which the hijackers had been led to believe was a socialist paradise. Wakabayashi currently resides in North Korea, along with other hijackers of the aircraft. rdf:langString