A group that supports the families of Red Army Faction fugitives who hijacked a Japan Airlines jet in 1970 and ordered it flown to North Korea has released to the media photos taken in December of five of the hijackers' relatives in Pyongyang.

Yukio Yamanaka (at rear, second from left), secretary general of the Tokyo-based Kyuen Renraku Center, is seen with family members of Red Army hijackers in a photo taken Dec. 10 in Pyongyang.

Yukio Yamanaka, secretary general of the Tokyo-based Kyuen Renraku Center, released photos of the wives and daughters of four of the fugitives, group members said.