The statute of limitations on the shooting of the National Police Agency chief in 1995 in Tokyo ran out at midnight March 29 with no one ever being charged in the attempted murder.

The Metropolitan Police Department committed massive resources to the investigation on suspicion that the Aum Shinrikyo cult was involved but never found any hard evidence.

NPA Commissioner General Takaji Kunimatsu was shot and severely wounded in front of his home in Arakawa Ward on March 30, 1995, eight days after the police launched massive raids on Aum following the deadly sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway.