assassination of Inejiro Asanuma

Name: assassination of Inejiro Asanuma
Start: 1960

1960 CE.

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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 Otoya Yamaguchi, an extreme anti-communist activist, charged onto the stage and fatally stabbed Asanuma with a wakizashi, a type of traditional short sword. The assassination weakened the Japan Socialist Party, inspired a series of copycat crimes, and made Yamaguchi an enduring hero and subsequently a martyr to various Japanese far-right groups, including the Greater Japan Patriotic Party of which Yamaguchi had been a member.

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