Mei Shigenobu: what Wikipedia removed
Daughter of the Japanese Red Army’s founder. The 2010 article called Lod Airport 1972, 26 murdered for Palestinian aims, a “terror attack”. Terror: 0 anywhere today.
The word “terror” appeared 2 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2010. Today it appears nowhere in the article at all, references included. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.
The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot
Section titled “The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot”| word | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| terror | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| resistance | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.
What was taken out
Section titled “What was taken out”- Lod Airport 1972: 26 murdered. The word for it went.
- The opening line was rewritten.
Who made the cuts
Section titled “Who made the cuts”Wikipedia publishes who makes every edit. These removals were traced to the exact revision that made them:
- 2015-01-04, 79.11.109.125, edit summary: “same as before” (see the diff)
- 2010-08-18, CaliforniaAliBaba, edit summary: “sectioning, restore original date format, more unverified statements” (see the diff)
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2010 (revision 361445517):
Mei Shigenobu ( 重信メイ , Shigenobu Mei ; born March 1, 1973) is the daughter of Japanese Red Army communist Fusako Shigenobu and a Palestinian resistance fighter. Some news agencies have given her name as May Shigenobu . She was born in Lebanon , though she was not a citizen of any country until March 2001, when she received Japanese citizenship. Shigenobu lived her first eight or nine years in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon; Fusako Shigenobu was absent for months at a time and Mei was raised in those periods by her mother’s colleagues in the Japanese Red Army. Following the Army’s 1972 terror attack at Lod Airport, Israel , in which 24 people were killed and 76 wounded, members of the g…
2026 (revision 1366336399):
Japanese journalist The native form of this personal name is Shigenobu Mei . This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals. Mei Shigenobu ( Japanese : 重信 メイ , romanized : Shigenobu Mei ; IPA: [ɕiɡe̞no̞bɯ̟ me̞ː] ; born March 1, 1973) is a Japanese journalist. She is the daughter of Japanese Red Army leader Fusako Shigenobu and of an unknown Palestinian who was reportedly a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine . Some news agencies have given her name as May Shigenobu . ^ Takigawa, Y. (June 2006), 日本の非常識からみた中東の非常識 , Myrtos Magazine (in Japanese) (92) ^ 9.11-8.15 Nippon Suicide Pact , Nihon Shinju, January 26, 2007, archived from the original on July 14,…
Related
Section titled “Related”- The drift report: what changed across all 61,944 watched articles
- The case file for this article, with every snapshot and every marked removal
- Who made the cuts: removals grouped by the account that made them
- The live article on Wikipedia
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