Hospitalized Man Tells Japanese Police He Is a Highly Wanted Fugitive, Dies 4 Days Later

Hospitalized Man Tells Japanese Police He Is a Highly Wanted Fugitive, Dies 4 Days Later
A wanted poster for Satoshi Kirishima, a fugitive who has long been wanted for one of a series of terrorist bombings in Japan, is displayed outside a police station in Tokyo on Feb. 2, 2024. Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo
The Associated Press
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TOKYO—A man who died at a Japanese hospital this week told police before he passed away that he was one of the country’s most wanted fugitives and had been on the run for nearly 50 years for being part of a radical group that carried out bombings in the 1970s, police said Friday.

Police had received a tip and went to the hospital near Tokyo last week to question the 70-year-old man. He told them he had terminal cancer and wanted to die using his real name, Satoshi Kirishima, instead of his alias and disclosed previously unknown details about the bombings, police said.