Prosecutors demanded an 18-month prison term Thursday for the wife of a Red Army Faction fugitive for alleged passport law violations.
Takako Konishi, 57, now on trial at the Tokyo District Court, has been charged with violating the law by refusing to surrender her passport while living in North Korea.
Her husband led the hijacking of a Japan Airlines jetliner to North Korea in 1970.
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