Asahi Shimbun-related sites were targeted in five attacks beginning in January 1987, the most serious of which was the fatal shooting of a 29-year-old reporter at the daily's Hanshin branch in the city of Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture.
On Tuesday, the 15-year statute of limitations runs out on the final incident -- the attempted bombing of the paper's Shizuoka branch on March 11, 1988.
A time bomb had been planted in a parking lot adjacent to the branch. It failed to go off and was discovered the next morning.