In Japan, Satoshi Kirishima dies after 49 years on the run. The fugitive from the East Asian Anti-Japan Armed Front, emblematic of the 1970s, had eluded Japanese investigators since 1975.
He escaped from them by a final pirouette. He is the return of an era that is barely conceivable for young Japanese today, accustomed to a monotonous and consensual political life. For this last small group, as its name suggests, it was modern Japan that had to be eradicated.