On the 27th, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s Public Safety Department confirmed that a man named Satoshi Kirishima (70), who was wanted for his involvement in a series of corporate bombings in 1974-75, died in January at a hospital. , revealed that the suspect was identified as Kirishima based on the results of DNA testing.
A police officer places a wanted poster over Kirishima’s wanted poster at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s Tsukiji Station on the 27th.
On the 27th, the Ministry of Public Security sent documents to prosecutors in five cases, including one in which the suspects were wanted, with the suspects still dead on suspicion of violating penalties related to explosives regulations. There is no information on the person who helped him escape.
Toshiki Kitabayashi, a counselor at the Ministry of Public Security, said at a press conference held on the same day, “Today was the result of placing him on the wanted list and conducting the necessary follow-up investigation.”
According to investigators, DNA testing revealed that there is “no discrepancy in kinship” between the type of suspect Kirishima’s relatives and the man’s type. While at the hospital, the man reportedly told them about the circumstances surrounding the incident and information about his family that only Kirishima himself could know.
During a voluntary interview at the hospital, Kirishima denied any involvement in the April 1975 bombing of the Korea Institute of Industrial Economics, for which he was wanted, saying, “I don’t know.” He reportedly admitted his involvement in four incidents, including the February 1975 bombing of the headquarters of Zamagumi (currently Ando Hazama).
Suspect Kirishima about 10 years ago = Provided by an acquaintance
In mid-January of this year, Kirishima was admitted to a hospital in Kamakura City, Kanagawa Prefecture under the pseudonym “Hiroshi Uchida” with terminal stomach cancer. He did not have a driver’s license or health insurance card and was paying for medical treatment out of pocket. On the 25th, when he was in critical condition, he confessed to hospital officials, “I am Satoshi Kirishima,” and “I want to use my real name in my final moments.” He died on the 29th.
Kirishima is a member of the extremist East Asia Anti-Japanese Armed Front, and belongs to a group within the organization called Sasori. The organization targeted companies that had expanded overseas and carried out a series of bombings, including the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries building incident in which eight people were killed. The statute of limitations has stopped because the accomplice has fled abroad.