Mei Shigenobu

Quick Facts

Full Name	Mei Shigenobu
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Mar 1, 1973(1973-03-01)
Age	51
Birthplace	Beirut
Country	Lebanon
Birth City	Beirut Governorate
Horoscope	Pisces

Mei Shigenobu Biography

Mei Shigenobu is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on March 1, 1973 in Beirut, Beirut Governorate, Lebanon. She tried to justify terrorist activities by saying that people in 1970-1980s had very different “moral value”, “sensibilities, and ways of thinking”. This implied that her mother’s sentence should be invalidated and echoed her mother’s assertion that the crimes committed had been political and that she should be convicted.

She was not born in any country, but she became a citizen of Japan in March 2001.

Mei Shigenobu appears in Nobuyuki Oura’s November 2006 movie 9/11-8/15 Japan Pack Suicide (『9.11-8.15-日本心中-』 ) . Mei also appears in Documentary on Zunou Keisatsu (ドキュメンタリー頭脳警察 , 2009) , a documentary featuring the life of the Japanese Rock band “Zunou Keisatu” (頭脳警察 , ‘Brain Police’) and its lead singer PANTA.

She earned her PhD degree in Media Studies from Doshisha University in 2011, doing research on the development of Arabic media, and the effect of satellite channels (a case study of Al Jazeera) on Arab societies.

After her mother was taken in Osaka, she came out of hiding and visited Japan in April 2001. She became the first child of a Red Army soldier to visit Japan in five years. In December 2001, she was in controversy when she spoke at Kanagawa Prefecture’s public school about Arab culture and food. A teacher invited her to speak at the school. The Israeli Embassy in Tokyo filed a complaint against the school, saying that her talk contained “blatantly biased political” anti-Israeli sentiments. After that, she began teaching English in a Tokyo cram school. Japanese scholars, journalists, writers, and activists signed a protest petition opposing the Israeli Embassy and Government. They claimed that Mei was now a Japanese citizen with the right to free speech in Japan.

Mei Shigenobu Net Worth

Mei Shigenobu is one of the richest Journalist from Lebanon. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mei Shigenobu 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Three Japanese volunteers from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine PFLP External Operations launched an attack on Israel’s Lod Airport on 30 May 1972 (see Lod Airport Massacre). PFLP leaders as well as other Japanese volunteers were then targets of Israel’s assassinations. Ghassan Kanafani, PFLP’s spokesman, was assassinated by the Israeli Intelligence Agency Mossad with a car bomb on July 8, 1972. After the 1974 French embassy hostage-taking at Hague, in which Mei was believed to have been involved, Mei became wanted by INTERPOL. Mei used aliases to evade the retaliations of her mother.

Mei Shigenobu (Zhong Xin Mei, Shigenobu Mei), was born 1 March 1973. She is the daughter of Fusako Shigenobu, a Japanese Red Army soldier and a Palestinian leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Some news agencies have named her May Shigenobu.

In 2010, Mei costarred in the fictional Japanese movie on figure skating Coach as a sports journalist. In 2010, Mei Shigenobu and her mother Fusako Shigenobu were featured in Shane O’Sullivan’s documentary film Children of the Revolution, which premiered at the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam. In 2011, Mei Shigenobu was featured in Eric Baudelaire’s experimental movie The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi, and 27 years without Images along with filmmaker and Japanese Red Army member Masao Adachi, which was entered at the 22nd Marseilles International Film Festival.

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Facts & Trivia

Mei Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Lebanon. Mei Shigenobu celebrates birthday on March 1 of every year.