Japan bomber may have been found after 50 years - BBC News

Police are carrying out DNA tests after a man claims to be the suspect of a bombing in Tokyo in the 1970s.

22 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, National Police AgencyImage caption, Satoshi Kirishima is alleged to have planted a bomb which destroyed part of a building in Tokyo in 1975By James GregoryBBC NewsFor decades, the smiling mugshot of Satoshi Kirishima has featured on wanted posters outside police stations across Japan.

After 49 years on the run, authorities think they may have got their man.

A patient at a hospital near Tokyo has claimed he is Kirishima, a member of a militant group behind several deadly bombings in the 1970s.

Police are waiting for DNA tests on the man, who was admitted under a different name suffering terminal cancer.

Kirishima had belonged to the East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front - a radical, left-wing organisation believed to be behind several bombings against companies in Japan's capital between 1972 and 1975.

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