Otoya Yamaguchi

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Otoya Yamaguchi was a 17-year-old Japanese ultranationalist who assassinated socialist politician Inejiro Asanuma during a televised political debate in 1960.

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instanceOf Japanese ultranationalist
assassin
human
ageAtDeath 17
arrestedOn 1960-10-12
associatedWithEvent 1960 Anpo protests
causeOfDeath hanging
countryOfCitizenship Japan
dateOfBirth 1943-02-22
dateOfDeath 1960-11-02
dateOfEvent 1960-10-12
detainedAt Tokyo Detention House NERFINISHED
educationLevel high school dropout
ethnicity Japanese
eventContext televised political debate
familyBackground son of a Japanese Self-Defense Forces officer
hasInfluenceOn Japanese right-wing extremism
historicalPeriod postwar Japan
ideologicalTarget Japan Socialist Party NERFINISHED
imageDepictedIn Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of Asanuma assassination
inspiredBy Japanese militarist tradition
languageSpoken Japanese
legalOutcome died before trial
mannerOfDeath suicide
mediaCoverage assassination broadcast on live television
memberOf Greater Japan Patriotic Party NERFINISHED
name Otoya Yamaguchi NERFINISHED
nativeName 山口 二矢 NERFINISHED
notableFor assassination of Inejiro Asanuma
notableWork assassination of Inejiro Asanuma
occupation political activist
perpetrated assassination of Inejiro Asanuma
placeOfBirth Tokyo, Japan NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Tokyo Detention House NERFINISHED
placeOfEvent Hibiya Public Hall, Tokyo NERFINISHED
politicalIdeology far-right politics
ultranationalism
portrayedIn documentaries about political violence in Japan
photograph by Yasushi Nagao
religion Shinto
sexOrGender male
targetedPolitician Inejiro Asanuma NERFINISHED
usedWeapon yoroidoshi (short sword)
victimOfAssassination Inejiro Asanuma NERFINISHED
wroteMessageWith toothbrush and toothpaste
wroteSlogan Long live the Emperor
Would that I had seven lives to give for my country

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Inejiro Asanuma killedBy Otoya Yamaguchi