The dying man in Japan who claimed to be the decades-long wanted terrorist Satoshi Kirishima is indeed him, a DNA test he underwent has revealed.
Kirishima, just days before his death in January, admitted to police officers that he was the man they had been looking for since the 1970s for his involvement in a terrorist group. “I want to meet death by my real name,” he had said.
Although Kirishima’s face was on wanted posters, it is unknown how he managed to go undetected for so many years, the BBC reports.
Even his neighbours were surprised that the “calm and serious man” who lived near them was a wanted man.
Kirishima was part of a terrorist group that had planted bombs in companies in the mid-1970s.
In one of the attacks, at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, eight people were killed and over 150 injured.
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He was never arrested, but managed to live under an alias without being traced by the authorities.
Japanese media reports that he lived in Fujisawa, near Tokyo, under the name Hiroshi Uchida.
He worked for a construction company and was paid in cash to avoid detection.
He had no cell phone, no driver’s license, and no health insurance.
The secret was revealed by him when he was hospitalized with terminal cancer.
Before he died on January 29, at the age of 70, he revealed details of his activities to police, although he denied some of the charges against him.
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