Attacks

- Beginning in 1970, the Red Army undertook several major terrorist operations

Such as:
- High jacking several airlines airplanes

- Massacre at Tel Aviv's Lod airport (1972)

- Seizure and Occupation of embassies in various countries

- In April 1988, JRA operative Yu Kikumura was arrested with explosives on the New Jersey Turnpike, apparently planning an attack to coincide with the bombing of a USO club in Naples, a suspected JRA operation that killed five, including a US servicewoman.

-   The JRA's bloodiest attack was a 1972 assault on Tel Aviv's airport, in which three JRA members killed 24 people and wounded 80.

-  In 1975, the JRA embarked on a successful campaign to free all of its imprisoned members by taking hostages and using them as bargaining chips.

-   In 1981, however, the JRA publicly stated that it was considering the rejection of violence as a political tool. In 1983, Shigenobu told the Japanese press that the group had "left the way of absolute terror." 
BUT:
Despite this, the JRA continued to plan and execute attacks during the 1980s, although they were on a much smaller scale than the group's previous activities