assassination of Inejiro Asanuma

When

12 Oct 1960

Kind

Assassination

Deaths

1

Coordinates

35.67° N, 139.76° E

Description

1960 assassination in Japan

1960 murder in Tokyo, Japan

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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• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “assassinat du leader socialiste japonais Inejirō Asanuma”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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