The Metropolitan Police Department has confirmed that a man who claimed to be Satoshi Kirishima (70), who was wanted for his involvement in a series of corporate bombings in the 1970s, died at a hospital in January. The person's home in Kanagawa Prefecture was searched on the 2nd as a suspicion.
The Metropolitan Police Department plans to conduct a detailed investigation into the person's daily life and proceed with DNA testing in order to quickly identify him.
Among the series of corporate bombings carried out in the 1970s by the extremist East Asia Anti-Japanese Armed Front, he is said to have been involved in the April 1975 bombing of the Korea Industrial Economic Research Institute building in Ginza, Tokyo. The suspect, identified as Satoshi Kirishima (70), who was wanted nationwide, died on January 29th at a hospital in Kanagawa Prefecture.
This person had been working as a live-in worker at a civil engineering company in Fujisawa City, Kanagawa Prefecture, but the Metropolitan Police Department suspected that he was the suspect himself, and that he had been arrested on suspicion of violating the explosives control penalty from just after 10 a.m. on the 2nd. We searched this person's home.
When interviewed by investigators at the hospital, this person denied any involvement in the incident for which he was wanted, but hinted that he was involved in another bombing incident.
The Metropolitan Police Department plans to conduct a detailed investigation into the person's daily life and proceed with DNA testing in order to quickly identify him.