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On 12 October 1960, Inejirō Asanuma (浅沼 稲次郎, Asanuma Inejirō), chairman of the Japan Socialist Party, was assassinated at Hibiya Public Hall in Tokyo.During a televised debate, 17-year-old right-wing ultranationalist Otoya Yamaguchi charged onto the stage and fatally stabbed Asanuma with a wakizashi, a type of traditional short sword.
Japanese public broadcaster NHK was videorecording the debate for later transmission and the tape of Asanuma's assassination was shown many times to millions of viewers. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] The photograph of Asanuma's assassination won its photographer Yasushi Nagao both the Pulitzer Prize and World Press Photo of the Year .
Yamaguchi was born on 22 February 1943 in Yanaka, Taitō ward, Tokyo.He was the second son of Shinpei Yamaguchi, who by 1960 would become a high-ranking officer in the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, and was the maternal grandson of the famous writer Namiroku Murakami, well known for his violent novels glorifying the chivalric code of Japanese organized crime syndicates known as the yakuza.
Trump said he was going to delay his trip by two days because of the attempted assassination “but have just decided that I cannot allow a ‘shooter,’ or potential assassin, to force change to ...
The Secret Service's investigation into the July 13 assassination attempt against former President Trump concluded that certain agents' actions may warrant discipline.
A crude weapon of metal and wood parts was used to assassinate the former prime minister of Japan, which has some of the world's strictest gun laws.
The Japanese Communist Party was founded in Tokyo on 15 July 1922, [2] [12] at a meeting where Kyuichi Tokuda discussed sessions held between the Japanese delegation and Comintern officials. Two delegates were sent to the 4th World Congress of the Communist International and a general meeting of the party was held in Ichikawa, Chiba , on 4 ...
Four Republicans on the task force investigating the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump were no-shows for a site visit on Monday, according to The Washington Post.