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Man confesses to shooting Japan’s top policeman in 1995

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.

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