Japan Arrests Longest-Sought Fugitive After Nearly 46 Years
The authorities this week confirmed the identity of the fugitive, Masaaki Osaka, 67, who was arrested last month in Hiroshima on a separate charge
and refused to give his name, according to Kyodo, the Japanese news agency.
Mr. Osaka is accused of killing Tsuneo Nakamura, a Tokyo police officer, on Nov. 14,
1971, when he threw a homemade gasoline bomb during a protest in Japan’s capital.
By RUSSELL GOLDMANJUNE 8, 2017
The police in Japan have arrested the country’s longest-sought fugitive, ending the
hunt for a radical leftist accused of killing a police officer nearly 46 years ago.
In 2012, however, the police arrested another long-sought suspect, Naoko Kikuchi, 40, in connection with the role
the authorities said she played in the deadly 1995 poison gas attack on Tokyo’s subway by the Aum Shinrikyo cult.
Mr. Osaka was a leading member of the Japan Revolutionary Communist League-National
Committee, a far-left revolutionary organization commonly known as Chukaku-ha.
That man, who the authorities later suspected was Mr. Osaka, has remained silent,
refusing to answer investigators’ questions, even about his name, for weeks.
