Right-wing groups celebrate assassination of politician Inejiro Asanuma in Tokyo 50 years later скачать в хорошем качестве

Right-wing groups celebrate assassination of politician Inejiro Asanuma in Tokyo 50 years later

By any measure, the assassination of socialist politician Inejiro Asanuma in Tokyo in 1960 was a shocking event - and five decades later the impact of the incident continues to reverberate in unpredictable ways. During a political debate at Tokyo's Hibiya Public Hall in October, a 17-year-old rightist, Otoya Yamaguchi, broke free from the assembled crowd, rushed the stage, and stabbed Asanuma with a small sword two times before being apprehended. He committed suicide three weeks later while being incarcerated in a detention cell. Very rarely, if ever, are the perpetrators of political assassinations later celebrated in a public forum. Yet on two occasions at the end of last year that was the case for Yamaguchi.