Word: kunimatsu
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...investigation is far from closed, and many questions remain unanswered. Foremost is why Asahara allegedly ordered the attack. Police are also eager to know if Aum was behind last month's attempted assassination of Tokyo police chief Takaji Kunimatsu and the disappearance in 1989 of a lawyer who was investigating Aum, along with his wife and infant son. Asahara continues to insist he is innocent. Makoto Endo, a lawyer who has visited him in jail and who represents another arrested cult member, says Asahara is distraught because no attorney wants to take his case. When Endo refused because he didn...
...Kunimatsu was right on schedule when he left his apartment last Wednesday morning, just after 8:25. As usual, he took the elevator down to the lobby, met his aide and started to walk across the tiled entry toward his chauffered car. At that moment, a gunman hiding behind a utility pole opened fire with a .38-cal. pistol...
Police believe the shooter was a professional. He had studied Kunimatsu's movements and chosen his time carefully. But it was the assailant's marksmanship that most clearly separated his act from that of a rank amateur. At a distance of more than 65 ft., he fired four times and did not miss once, putting bullets through Kunimatsu's leg, chest and abdomen even as the police chief crumpled to the ground. Then the gunman hopped on a bicycle and disappeared...
...took six hours of surgery before doctors could pronounce Kunimatsu in stable condition. They say the police chief will survive the shooting, although his recovery will take weeks. What may prove far more difficult to repair is Japan's proud sense of itself as a nation immune to the sort of violence and fear that the Japanese associate with America, not their own homeland...
...attempt to murder Kunimatsu, coming so quickly after the subway gas attack that killed 10 and injured 5,500, struck at the very symbol of social stability in Japan. Not since the Japanese Red Army terrorized the country in the early 1970s has there been such a brazen challenge to authority in postwar Japan. Says Takeo Mori, professor of criminal psychology at Senshu University: "Anyone can do it anytime, and therein lies the fear...