Hiroshi Nakamura (dissident) explained

was a Japanese dissident.[1] After the Korean War broke out, he dropped out of Tokyo University, and decided to fight against Japan. He was multilingual and became a good shot by training. On November 23, 1956, he shot a policeman to death and received a life sentence. He was paroled in 1976. Following his release, he attempted to found an armed organization and collected guns. After being arrested for an attempted robbery in 2002, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for the crime and also received another life sentence for his previous 2001 injury case. He was also suspected of the 1995 shooting of Takaji Kunimatsu, who was a chief of the National Police Agency.[2] [3] Nakamura died on May 22, 2024.[4]

References

  1. Web site: http://www4.ocn.ne.jp/~misty/nanpeijiken2.html. ja:ナンペイ事件と東大中退テロリスト. Japanese. Takehiko Koike. 2008-03-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20080109113433/http://www4.ocn.ne.jp/~misty/nanpeijiken2.html. 2008-01-09. dead.
  2. News: Man confesses to shooting Japan's top cop in 1995. https://web.archive.org/web/20080321130156/http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/431698. dead. 2008-03-21. Japan Today. 2008-03-20. 2008-03-23.
  3. News: http://sankei.jp.msn.com/affairs/crime/080320/crm0803200217005-n1.htm . ja:警察庁長官銃撃で77歳男が犯行示唆の供述 「秘密の暴露」 . Japanese . Sankei Shimbun . 2008-03-20 . 2008-03-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080321234317/http://sankei.jp.msn.com/affairs/crime/080320/crm0803200217005-n1.htm . 2008-03-21 . dead .
  4. News: 「あなたが撃ったのか」記者の手紙に受刑者は答えた 「オウム真理教のテロ」として幕引きされた警察庁長官狙撃事件 . 18 September 2024 . tokyo-np . 4 June 2024.

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