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 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 Japan’s most wanted fugitives.