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