Local media reported that a man who blew up a building in Tokyo, Japan in 1975 and then ran away and lived while hiding his identity for 49 years, died in hospital on the 29th after recently confessing.
According to NHK and the Asahi Shimbun, a man in his 70s who was hospitalized with terminal cancer at a hospital in Kamakura City, Kanagawa Prefecture, died this morning.
Before his death, this man said he was a member of the East Asia Anti-Japanese Armed Front, a radical armed struggle group in the 1970s. He revealed himself to hospital officials as Satoshi Kirishima, a wanted suspect involved in the bombing of the Korea Institute of Industrial Economics and Trade in Tokyo in April 1975.
He worked at a civil engineering company for 49 years, hiding his identity under the pseudonym ‘Hiroshi Uchida’, and was diagnosed with terminal stomach cancer.
He used a pseudonym when he was admitted to the hospital, but on the 25th he told the hospital, “I am Satoshi Kirishima. “I want to greet you with my real name in the end,” he said.
Accordingly, the Public Security Department of the Metropolitan Police Agency met with his relatives, examined his DNA, and began the process of confirming whether it was Kirishima himself.
In a statement made at the hospital, the man revealed detailed circumstances at the time of the incident and information that only those involved could know.
However, he died at the hospital before the DNA analysis results were released. The evaluation results have not been released yet. The Metropolitan Police Department believes that it is highly likely that the suspect is himself, and if the facts are confirmed, they plan to forward the documents as ‘suspect dead’.
The ‘East Asia Anti-Japanese Armed Front’, which advocates anti-imperialism and anti-colonialism, is an armed struggle group that successively bombed Japanese company headquarters and factories between 1974 and 1975. In particular, the explosion at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries killed 8 people and injured 380.
On April 18, 1975, a homemade bomb was installed at the entrance door of the Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade on the 5th floor of a building in Ginza, Tokyo and detonated using a time device. They committed terrorism at the Korea Institute of Industrial Economics and Trade, believing that it was a base for providing Korean information to Japanese war criminal companies.
Most of the gang members, who were college students or office workers, were arrested and either died while incarcerated or were released after serving their time in prison, but Kirishima was not caught by the police. He was a fourth-year student at Meiji Gakuin University at the time of the incident.
Park Tae-geun,
Source: Donga
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