Japan’s most wanted fugitive, Satoshi Kirishima, who had been on the run for 49 years for his involvement in a series of deadly bombings in the 1970s, has been finally identified by a DNA test, the police announced on Wednesday. Kirishima, who died of stomach cancer last month at the age of 70, had confessed his true identity to the …

Satoshi Kirishima was one of Japan’s most-wanted fugitives, who had been on the run for nearly half a century. He was a member of the East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front, a radical left-wing terrorist group that carried out a series of bombings against Japanese corporations in the 1970s, killing and injuring hundreds of people. He was wanted for his involvement …