9 years to 'find' the nat'l police chief's hitman: a cop

[Taro Toporific]

Four Japan Cultists Arrested in Shooting
Associated Press / Tue, Jul. 06, 2004
TOKYO - Four members of a Japanese doomsday cult were arrested Wednesday in connection with the shooting of the national police chief nine years ago, authorities said.
Takaji Kunimatsu was shot and seriously wounded while investigating Aum Shinrikyo, the cult later held responsible for the nerve gas attack on Japan's subway system that killed 12 people, injured thousands and crushed the country's sense of safety. He was shot 10 days after the subway attack in March 1995.

[Taro Toporific]

Mystery shrouds gunman in police chief attackMDN / Tue, Jul. 06, 2004
Mystery continues to shroud the actions of the gunman who shot and injured former National Police Agency chief Takaji Kunimatsu in 1995, despite Wednesday's arrest of a former AUM Shinrikyo suspect who has admitted pulling the trigger.
Police said Toshiyuki Kosugi, 39, a former AUM cultist and senior officer at the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) who was arrested Wednesday in connection with the shooting, told police he had carried out the attack.
But because of inconsistencies in his statements to police, his actual role in the crime, including whether he even shot the director general, remains unclear.
In 1996, Kosugi told police, "The first to third shots (I fired at Kunimatsu) hit him, but the fourth one missed." He also said, "After the shooting, I nearly lost my way" -- things that only the person who committed the crime would know.

[GuyJean]

But because of inconsistencies in his statements to police, his actual role in the crime, including whether he even shot the director general, remains unclear.

note to self: babble incoherently when arrested.

In 1996, Kosugi told police, "The first to third shots (I fired at Kunimatsu) hit him, but the fourth one missed." He also said, "After the shooting, I nearly lost my way" -- things that only the person who committed the crime would know.

note to self: say, "I see bullet, I hear bang; I grow mullet, I speak slang." when see j-police.

Gotta luv this country; Stupidity is an asset.

GJ

[Taro Toporific]

Huh?

Man confesses to shooting Japan's top cop in 1995
japan today - Thursday, March 20, 2008 at 17:17 EST
TOKYO ---A man currently being held in a detention center has confessed to investigators that he shot Japan's top policeman in March 1995 when Tokyo police staged a massive crackdown on the AUM Shinrikyo cult, a Japanese daily reported Thursday.
In a front-page report timed for the 13th anniversary Thursday of the Tokyo subway gas attack by cult members, the Sankei Shimbun newspaper said Hiroshi Nakamura, 77, has made a detailed confession to investigators from the Metropolitan Police Department on the shooting of Takaji Kunimatsu, who was seriously wounded in the attack.
Nakamura was sentenced to life imprisonment in March 2007 after being convicted of robbery and attempted murder over an attack on a cash transport van in Osaka in October 2001, the report said. His appeal is still pending at the Supreme Court.
Nakamura told the investigators that he abandoned his bicycle in front of a tea parlor, some 600 meters southwest of Kunimatsu's condominium in Tokyo's Arakawa Ward, after shooting him with a revolver on March 20, 1995, the report said.
He also told them that he later took a Yamanote loop-line train and placed the revolver in a rental safe in Shinjuku Ward, the report said...more....

[dimwit]

Presumably the guy is a now retired gangster which is what everyone assumed all along. It demonstrates how marvelously the policy of controlling organized crime rather (than eradicating it) is.