Otoya Yamaguchi
Otoya Yamaguchi was a Japanese right-wing ultranationalist youth who assassinated Inejirō Asanuma, chairman of the Japan Socialist Party, on 12 October 1960. He stabbed Asanum with a wakizashi short sword while he was participating in a televised election debate at Hibiya Public Hall in Tokyo. A photograph of the assassination taken by Japanese photojournalist Yasushi Nagao is considered one of...