Image copyright AFP Image caption Police say they have confirmed the identity of Mr Osaka through DNA tests 
 
 For one suspected murderer in Japan, it has been a case of being able to run but not being able to hide. 
 
 Left-wing revolutionary Masaaki Osaka has been arrested and charged for murdering a police officer during Tokyo street protests more than 45 years ago. 
 
 He allegedly set the officer on fire using a Molotov Cocktail petrol bomb. 
 
 No other suspected criminal has spent longer evading arrest, Japanese media report. The country has no statute of limitations for murder. 
 
 The 15-year time limit was abolished in 2010. 
 
 Where do prison escapees and absconders actually go? 
 
 Mr Osaka was arrested last month in a Hiroshima apartment belonging to the Chukaku-ha, or the Japan Revolutionary Communist League (JRCL). He is reported by police to have remained silent since being caught. 
 
 Image copyright AFP Image caption Masaaki Osaka has been wanted by police since the early 1970s 
 
 The fugitive was initially accused of a separate offence - obstructing the police - before officers claim to have realised who he was. 
 
 On Wednesday, he was transported from Hiroshima to Tokyo for further questioning, local media reported. 
 
 Police say they have confirmed his identity through DNA tests because fingerprints were unavailable at the time of the crime. 
 
 They say Mr Osaka was able to remain on the run for so long because he is a former high-ranking member of the radical left-wing JRCL and was assisted by sympathetic party associates. 
 
 Image copyright EPA Image caption The fugitive has appeared on wanted posters throughout the last four decades 
 
 The JRCL was established in the late 1950s and during the 1960s and 1970s earned a reputation for staging violent street protests. 
 
 Mr Osaka is accused of killing the 21-year-old police officer during a left wing riot in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward in 1971. He is alleged to have assaulted him with a steel pipe before setting him alight. 
 
 The JRCL was protesting - among other things - against the recognition by Japan of the US military presence in the country. 
 
 The man alleged to be Mr Osaka's accomplice in the 1971 attack was charged in 1972, but his case was suspended because of mental illness. 
 
 Major events in Japan while Masaaki Osaka has been on the run: ||||| A fugitive murder suspect has been arrested after more than 45 years hiding from authorities, police in Japan said. 
 
 Masaaki Osaka was arrested Wednesday for five offences including murder, Tokyo police confirmed. 
 
 The 67-year-old is accused of killing a police officer during a Tokyo street protest in November 1971, according to public broadcaster NHK. 
 
 Masaaki Osaka, in an undated picture used for the police's wanted list. Jiji Press via AFP - Getty Images 
 
 He reportedly threw petrol over the 21-year-old police officer before setting him on fire, NHK reported. 
 
 The long-time fugitive was first arrested in May after police raided a communist hideout in Hiroshima City, according to regional newspaper Chunichi Shimbun. 
 
 Osaka was arrested for an unrelated minor offense — obstructing a police officer — but was identified through a DNA match, the newspaper reported. 
 
 As one of the most wanted men in Japan, Osaka’s face has appeared on posters in Tokyo for more than four decades. 
 
 Japan has no statute of limitation for murder after the law was revised in 2010. ||||| At least eight people have died and scores more have been injured after the strongest typhoon to hit Japan in 25 years made landfall. 
 
 More than one million people were ordered to evacuate and nearly 800 flights were cancelled as the powerful storm hit the country with winds of up to 129mph (208km/h). 
 
 Typhoon Jebi, named after the Korean word for “swallow” in Korean, was briefly classed as a super typhoon. 
 
 In the hard-hit city of Osaka, high seas have poured into Kansai International Airport, flooding one of its two runways and cargo storage facilities and forcing the airport to shut down. 
 
 Wind gusts of up to 129mph were recorded in one part of Shikoku, the smallest main island, with forecasts for gusts as high as 135mph (216km/h). 
 
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 Hello and welcome to the latest updates as typhoon Jebi makes landfall on the west coast of Japan. There were scattered reports of mild injuries as the typhoon made landfall on Shikoku, the smallest main island, around noon. It raked across the western part of the largest main island, Honshu, near the city of Kobe, several hours later. Japan's Kyodo News service said it was the strongest typhoon to make landfall in Japan since 1993. 
 
 Evacuation advisories have been issued for more than one million people as the wind and rain began picking up, the Fire and Disaster Management Agency said. Tides in some areas were the highest since a typhoon in 1961, NHK public television said, with flooding covering the runways at Kansai International Airport in Osaka. The strong winds sent a 2,591-tonne tanker crashing into a bridge connecting Kansai airport, which is built on a man-made island in a bay, to the mainland. The bridge was damaged but the tanker was empty and none of its crew was injured, the coast guard said. More than 700 flights have been cancelled, along with scores of ferries and trains, according to Japanese media tallies. 
 
 
 
 Shinkansen bullet train services between Tokyo and Hiroshima were suspended and Universal Studios Japan, a popular amusement park near Osaka, was closed. Footage has emerged of a building partially collapsing in Osaka. This is the route typhoon Jebi is predicted to take as it tracks across Japan. Around 100mm (3.9in) of rain drenched one part of the tourist city of Kyoto in an hour, with as much as 500mm (20in) set to fall in some areas in the 24 hours to noon on Wednesday. Some 177,000 customers across western Japan have lost power, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said. 
 
 
 
 Toyota Motor Corp said it was cancelling the night shift at some 14 plants. Heavy winds have blown parts of the roof of the newly built Hotel Hewitt Koshien, in Hygo Prefecture, off the building and then sent them careening into an electricity pylon. This is the predicted path of typhoon Jebi. More footage has been shared on social media of roofs being blown off buildings. Cranes have been filmed swaying violently as the storm batters Japan. High seas have poured into Kansai International Airport in Osaka, flooding one of its two runways and cargo storage and forcing the airport to shut down. Tokyo has escaped typhoon Jebi relatively unscathed, with some intermittent squalls. One person has been killed when a warehouse collapsed in Shiga prefecture, Kyodo news reports. Here's an inkling of how strong winds from typhoon Jebi are - they can be seen pushing this van over onto its side. Footage posted on Twitter shows the moment part of Kyoto train station's roof collapsed earlier today, sending people below running for cover. Several people were reportedly injured. At least six people have been killed and more than 120 injured as Japan by typhoon Jebi. 
 
 A man in his 70s died after he was apparently blown to the ground from his apartment in Osaka prefecture, officials said. 
 
 A 71-year-old man was earlier found dead under a collapsed warehouse in Shiga prefecture. The collapse was likely due to a strong winds. 
 
 National broadcaster NHK said 126 people had been injured in the storm. Japan's prime minister, Shinzo Abe, has cancelled a scheduled trip to Kyushu, the country's most southern main island, to oversee the government's response to the typhoon, chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga has said. The Universal Studios theme park and US Consulate have both closed in Osaka, which has borne the brunt of the typhoon. Next 
 
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 It is the latest harsh weather event to hit Japan this summer following rains, landslides, floods and record-breaking heat that killed hundreds of people.
– After more than 45 years, time is up for one of Japan's most-wanted criminals. NBC News reports Masaaki Osaka was arrested Wednesday in connection with the 1971 murder of a police officer; he's accused of killing officer Tsuneo Nakamura during a street protest in Tokyo in November of that year. A member of the Japan Revolutionary Communist League (JRCL), Osaka was protesting the continued American military presence in Okinawa, an island 400 miles south of the mainland. Authorities say Osaka, now 67, assaulted Nakamura with a steel pipe before lighting him on fire with a Molotov cocktail. The BBC reports Osaka was first arrested last month for allegedly obstructing police during a raid on an apartment in Hiroshima. The JRCL was reportedly using it as a hideout, and police were in search of someone other than Osaka. Although Osaka refused to give police his name, he was recognized, and his identity was eventually confirmed through DNA testing; the Japan Times explains a new warrant on the murder charge was served Wednesday. Osaka has since been moved from Hiroshima to Tokyo for further questioning, though the BBC says he has yet to say anything. Osaka's time as a fugitive—aided, authorities say, by the JRCL—was the longest among major-crime suspects being sought by Japan's National Police Agency.