A MOMENT IN HISTORY
Assassination of Inejiro Asanuma
1960 CE · Japan, Asia · Politics
On 12 October 1960, Inejirō Asanuma , 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.
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