{"id":62215,"date":"2024-02-28T14:18:04","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T05:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/28\/satoshi-kirishima-dna-test-japan"},"modified":"2024-02-28T14:18:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T05:18:04","slug":"dna-test-proves-elderly-construction-worker-was-one-of-japans-most-wanted-fugitives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62215","title":{"rendered":"DNA test proves elderly construction worker was one of Japan\u2019s most wanted fugitives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Satoshi Kirishima evaded authorities for 49 years before his deathbed confession to being part of a 1970s terrorist group <\/p>\n<p>Satoshi Kirishima spent almost half a century evading arrest, until mortality intervened.<\/p>\n<p>As deathbed confessions go, his was astonishing: having lived a double life as a construction worker, the 70-year-old was admitted last month to a hospital near Tokyo where he told staff he was, in fact, one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a>\u2019s most wanted fugitives.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/28\/satoshi-kirishima-dna-test-japan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satoshi Kirishima evaded authorities for 49 years before his deathbed confession to being part of a 1970s terrorist group Satoshi Kirishima spent almost half a century evading arrest, until mortality intervened.As deathbed confessions go, his was aston&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62216,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62215\/revisions\/62216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}