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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. [1]
Protestors marching from Hibiya Park towards the national diet. Akao was virulently anti-communist and strongly pro-United States. Thus when left-wing protesters, led by Asanuma and the Japan Socialist Party, staged the massive Anpo protests against the 1960 revision of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty (known as "Anpo" in Japanese), Akao became convinced that Japan was on the verge of a ...
Inejiro Asanuma (浅沼 稲次郎, Asanuma Inejirō, 27 December 1898 – 12 October 1960) was a Japanese politician and leader of the Japan Socialist Party.During World War II, Asanuma was aligned with the Imperial Rule Assistance Association and advocated for war in Asia.
Emperor of Japan: 456: Kofun Japan: Mayowa no Ōkimi ... Malayan Communist Party ... Assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, Dallas, ...
This was the only book written about Oswald before the Kennedy assassination. [36] [37] [38] Oswald departed for Japan the following month, where he was assigned to Marine Air Control Squadron 1 at Naval Air Facility Atsugi near Tokyo. [39] [40] Like all Marines, Oswald was trained and tested in shooting.
[318] Kazuo Shii, chairman of the Japanese Communist Party, called the assassination "barbaric", an attack on free speech and an act of terrorism in a post to Twitter. [319] Tomohiko Taniguchi, a former advisor to Abe, compared his death to the assassination of John F. Kennedy in terms of likely social impact in Japan. [320]
Kennedy appointed sympathetic Japan expert and Harvard University professor Edwin O. Reischauer as ambassador to Japan, rather than a career diplomat. [39] He also invited Ikeda to be the first foreign leader to visit the United States in his term in office, [ 40 ] and at their 1961 summit, promised Ikeda he would henceforth treat Japan more ...
News of Kennedy's assassination reached Asia during the early morning hours of November 23, 1963, because of the time difference. [43] [44] In Japan, the news became the first television broadcast from the United States to Japan via the Relay 1 satellite, instead of a prerecorded message from Kennedy to the Japanese people.