According to Japanese media reports, Satoshi Kirishima, a "major wanted criminal" wanted in Japan for half a century, died in the hospital this morning due to stomach cancer at the age of 70.
Since he revealed his identity on January 25, all major Japanese media and TV stations have been occupied by this man for several days.
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Who is Satoshi Kirishima?
He can be said to be a man that contemporary Japanese have seen since childhood, and he is also a man that the Japanese police can't let go.
On the streets of Japan, large and small stations, subway stations... In addition to various advertising light boxes and posters, the most conspicuous thing should be the wanted poster, which is called "named hand matching" in Japanese.
And Satoshi Kirishima is the "big brother" on the wanted list, and he has not been arrested for 49 years on the list.
And unlike other wanted criminals who have expressionless faces, Satoshi Kirishima on the wanted warrant has a sunny and energetic smile, which makes it difficult not to notice.
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Born in 1954 in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, Satoshi Kirishima has been a top student since he was a child, and after graduating from high school, he entered the Faculty of Law of Meiji Gakuin University.
During his university years, he became acquainted with Yoshimasa Kurokawa and Koshiichi Uga Kami, and joined the "Scorpion" squad of the Japanese ultra-left armed group "East Asian Anti-Japanese Armed Front".
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It is said that this "East Asian Anti-Japanese Armed Front" (東アジアAnti-Japanese Armed 戦線) also has quite a background.
It was founded in the early 1970s.
It is a non-governmental anti-Japanese organization that advocates the abolition of the Japanese emperor system, hates Japan's initiation of wars of aggression, and demands that Japan take responsibility for the war during World War II.
They were divided into three groups, "Wolves", "Scorpions", and "Fangs of the Earth", and often carried out anti-Japanese campaigns with aggressive means of attack.
The members of the organization go to work normally during the day, some are corporate office workers, some are restaurant waiters, and they will secretly carry out activities at night.
In January 1971, the group began making improvised explosive devices to blow up iconic buildings of Japanese imperialism.
For example, in 1971, the Xingya Guanyin and the Monument of the Seven Martyrs were blasted;
In 1972, the explosion of the ossuary hall of the head of the temple, the group portrait of the wind and snow, and the explosion of the northern cultural research facility.
Small popular science: The Koya Guanyin statue in the Kannon Temple in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, was built by 10 altars of blood brought back from Nanjing by Matsui Shigen, the culprit of the Nanjing Massacre, in order to suppress the unjust souls of the Chinese killed in the massacre. The hospital also enshrines more than 1,000 war criminals, including seven Class A war criminals from the Tokyo Trial.
On December 12, 1971, the Guanyin Statue, the "Offering Pillar" and the "Monument of the Seven Scholars" were blasted and attacked by the anti-Japanese armed front in East Asia, and were later restored.
The group had also planned to assassinate the emperor of Japan.
They were manipulating the railway bridge in preparation for blowing up the train on which Emperor Showa was traveling on August 14, 1974.
Unexpectedly, the matter was revealed, and the emperor changed his course.
They were able to recover the wires and explosives buried on the railway bridge the night before the operation, and the assassination plan ended in failure.
In 1974~1975, the organization began to launch bomb attacks on some enterprises and entities related to World War II, which was called the "Lianlian Enterprise Blasting Incident".
On August 30, 1974, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries blasted the industry, killing 8 people and injuring 376 others.
On October 14, 1974, 16 people were injured in the Mitsui & Co. blasting incident.
On November 25, 1974, the Teijin Academia Sinica explosion incident.
On December 10, 1974, Dacheng Construction was blasted, and 9 people were injured.
On December 23, 1974, Kashima Construction was blasted.
On April 19, 1975, the explosion incident of the Korean Industrial Research Institute.
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The most serious of these is the "Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Blasting Incident"
On August 30, 1974, they planted a bomb in the entrance of the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries building in Marunouchi, Tokyo.
Before the detonation, they called the building several times, saying that explosives were about to explode, and told everyone to evacuate.
But the operator thought it was a joke call and didn't care.
The bomb was then detonated, killing 8 people and injuring 376 people, making it one of the worst terrorist attacks in Japan since World War II.
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And Satoshi Kirishima was wanted after the "Hansan Research Institute Explosion Incident".
At 1 a.m. on April 19, 1975, he dropped a bomb in the center of Ginza, Tokyo, which blew up the Korea Institute of Industrial Economics, and because the attack was at midnight, there were no casualties.
That night, the police wantonly scattered tens of millions of wanted warrants for Satoshi Kirishima all over Japan for the crime of "violating the penalty for the prohibition of explosives."
Satoshi Kirishima was only 21 years old at the time.
By May 1975, members of the group had been arrested and involved in as many as 12 bombings.
However, Satoshi Kirishima is the only member of the organization who has not been arrested and has no criminal record, and he has been on the run for the longest time in Japan.
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Until January 25, 2024, Satoshi Kirishima, who has been absconding for 49 years, "threw himself into the net".
On January 25, a hospital in Kamakura City, Kanagawa Prefecture, reported to the police that a 70-year-old patient identified himself as Satoshi Kirishima.
Frightened, the Metropolitan Police Department rushed to the hospital to investigate and confirm his identity.
According to the physical characteristics of the old man, the police believe that he is most likely Satoshi Kirishima himself.
However, scientific comparisons are still needed.
Because Satoshi Kirishima did not leave fingerprints at the time of the crime, the police need to find Satoshi Kirishima's relatives in his hometown in Hiroshima and conduct DNA tests to confirm their identity.
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As the investigation progresses, Satoshi Kirishima's absconding life is also exposed.
It is understood that Satoshi Kirishima fled overseas after committing the crime, but then returned to Japan because he felt that it was better to be in Japan.
He went by the pseudonym "Hiroshi Uchida" and worked all his life in a small construction company in Kanagawa Prefecture, married a wife and had children, and now has grandchildren.
The owner of the company recalled that about 40 years ago, a very lonely young man came to the company to apply for a job, saw that he was lonely and pitiful, and hired him. After that, he lived in the company dormitory and worked diligently until now.
Because he has always lived in the company's house, his salary is also cash, and he has not used rent or bank credit services for decades, so Satoshi Kirishima's identity has not been exposed.
About a year ago, Satoshi Kirishima got stomach cancer.
During the treatment, he always used a pseudonym, did not use medical insurance, and paid for the treatment at his own expense, so his identity was never exposed.
Satoshi Kirishima was unwell this month, accompanied by a colleague to a hospital in Kamakura City, Kanagawa Prefecture.
Later, he was diagnosed with advanced stomach cancer and died shortly.
On January 25, he suddenly told the medical staff that his practical use had always been a pseudonym, and his real identity was a wanted criminal, Satoshi Kirishima.
And the reason why he turned himself in was because he hoped to die as "Satoshi Kirishima"...
After the news of Satoshi Kirishima's arrest was exposed, the Japanese people were boiling.
Many netizens also sighed that they wanted to take a photo with that wanted post, and after watching it for decades, it can be regarded as a young knot...
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This morning, Satoshi Kirishima died in the hospital.
Who would have thought that the longest-running wanted criminal in Japanese history would turn himself in before his death after decades of living under the nose of the Metropolitan Police Department...
For a moment, it felt difficult to evaluate him...
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