In 1960, 17-year-old student Otoya Yamaguchi assassinated the chairman of the Japanese Socialist Party.
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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>On October 12, 1960, 17-year-old nationalist Otoya Yamaguchi assassinated Inejiro Asanuma, the chairman of the Japanese Socialist Party, during a televised political debate in Tokyo. Armed with a **traditional wakizashi sword**, Yamaguchi rushed the stage and fatally stabbed Asanuma, shocking millions of viewers.
>Asanuma was a vocal critic of U.S.-Japan relations and a proponent of socialist policies, which Yamaguchi viewed as a threat to Japan’s sovereignty and traditional values. The incident highlighted the intense political polarization in post-war Japan, particularly over the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty. Yamaguchi later committed suicide.
That is an *incredible* photo
Now *this* is damn interesting!
Watched a really cool documentary about Japan in the 1960s, I think it was on YouRube. The TLDR of it all is that this guys assassination is probably the reason the US and Japan have a good relationship till this day.
Edit: here it is https://youtu.be/YzRWPGSaKDk?si=JPuWpNYYaApxl3eV
r/PraiseTheCameraman
>After being arrested and interrogated, Yamaguchi committed suicide while in a detention facility.
For those who wondered what happened to the 17-year-old
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otoya_Yamaguchi
Chairman’s face looks like he knows exactly how much this is going to hurt.
Japan’s old guard methodically destroyed the left as a political force. The same corporate business board masquerading as a government have been in charge for as long as the CCP.
r/Damnthatsinteresting is healing 🙏🙏🙏
omae wa mou shindeiru
Bring the katana, time to slice
The year of blood
So this is why in every anime the one holding a knife with intent to kill holds it like that
No other countries rival Japan in terms of successful assassinations
CIA backed fascist pig.
Getsuga
With a Kamehame-ha?
Record scratch, it was at that moment the chairman knew, he fucked up.
My favorite pic from history
Otoya “If Karl Marx is your waifu prepare to lose your lifeu” Yamaguchi
Hmmmmm
He hasn’t even reached is final form yet
The importance of this event has been widely overstated. There’s a widespread claim that this assassination “ended socialism in Japan”, but that’s a wild exaggeration. The Socialist Party did see it’s prospects decline, but a lot of its voters went to the Communist Party, and Japan in the 60s had a leftist student movement that was as big if not bigger than the one in the US.
Is there weird perspective or is that guys head very small?
Well if youre gonna kill yourself, do it with purpose ig
That’s an amazing picture!
I just watched this story in yt by mr ballen lol
M. M. M. Mm. M. M. M. M. M m m mm mm. M M. M. ?? M. N. , ,
Good
Why?
he was pretty quick to attack him and politician was already stabbed when this picture was taken.
Man’s a hero. Due to his actions Japan never got a communist foothold in their country, unlike China and Korea did. And we ALL know how that turned out for China and North Korea. I don’t give a damn if you heard about Karl Marx in college and pretended to be a commie because the hot girl in your class was, it’s undeniable communist countries have absolutely shit standards of living which is why every single one of them collapsed and turned to some form of capitalism.
What did u guys do at 17?
Look at that stance. He knows what he’s doing at 17.
A Japanese Luigi!
Well, no wonder. That guy has 4 hands and 4 legs.
Commies btfo
Via kamehameha?
Is the assassin… Smiling?