is a former member of the Japanese Red Army

Japanese Red Army

The was a Communist terrorist group founded by Fusako Shigenobu early in 1971 in Lebanon. It sometimes called itself Arab-JRA after the Lod airport massacre...

 (JRA).

He was a member of the group that attacked the French embassy in The Hague in 1974

1974 French Embassy attack in The Hague

On September 13, 1974, three members of the Japanese Red Army stormed the French Embassy in The Hague allegedly on Fusaku Shigenobu's orders. The ambassador and ten other people were taken hostage and a Dutch policewoman, Hanke Remmerswaal, was shot in the back, puncturing a lung...

. Nishikawa was arrested in Stockholm

Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...

 in 1975 and freed months later in exchange for hostages taken by the Japanese Red Army at the United States consulate in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur

1975 AIA building hostage crisis

The AIA Building hostage crisis took place at the AIA Building in Jalan Ampang, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 5 August 1975. The Japanese Red Army took more than 50 hostages at the AIA building, which housed several embassies. The hostages included the United States consul and the Swedish chargé...

.

He subsequently was involved in the Japan Airlines Flight 472 hijacking

Japan Airlines Flight 472

Japan Airlines Flight 472 was an aircraft hijacking carried out by the Japanese Red Army on September 28, 1977.-Incident:The Douglas DC-8, en route from Paris to Haneda Airport in Tokyo with 156 people on board, stopped in Mumbai, India...

 carried out by the JRA on September 28, 1977. As a demand they asked for the release of several JRA members, including Junzo Okudaira

Junzō Okudaira

, born February 2, 1949, was one of the three Japanese Red Army members who attacked the French embassy in The Hague in 1974.On April 14, 1988, a car bomb exploded in front of the USO Club in Naples, Italy. The explosion killed five people, including a U.S. servicewoman, and injured 15, including...

 among others.

He was re-arrested in the eastern Bolivian city of Santa Cruz. The investigation leading to his arrest was carried out by Interpol

Interpol

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 with cooperation from Peru

Peru

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, Ecuador

Ecuador

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 and Bolivia

Bolivia

Bolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...

. He was eventually returned to Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

, was arrested, convicted, and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Japan's Supreme Court said on September 13, 2011, that it has turned down an appeal by Nishikawa against his sentence of life imprisonment.