The man who claimed he is the fugitive Satoshi Kirishima, a former member of the East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front who was wanted for his role in a series of bombings in the 1970s and was arrested by Japanese police on January 25, 2024 (with the arrest announced the next day) after telling hospital staff during treatment for terminal cancer that he was Kirishima, has died in a Tokyo hospital of the terminal cancer that lead him to seek treatment in the first place. A DNA test to confirm if he is indeed Kirishima was not yet completed at the time of his death.