Member of a right-wing Uyoku dantai group, famous for assassinating the head of the Japan Socialist Party, Inejiro Asanuma, by wakizashi (a Japanese sword that entered Asanuma on the left side of his stomach) on October 12, 1960 at Tokyo's Hibiya Hall during a political debate in advance of parliamentary elections on live television. Less than three weeks after the assassination, while being held in a juvenile detention facility, Yamaguchi mixed a small amount of tooth paste with water and wrote on his cell wall, "Seven lives for my country. Ten thousand years for His Imperial Majesty, the Emperor!" Yamaguchi then knotted strips of his bedsheet into a makeshift rope and used it to hang himself from a light fixture. He was 17 years old∼Born: February 22, 1943, Taito City, Tokyo, Japan
Died: November 2, 1960, Nerima City, Tokyo, Japan
Place of burial: Aoyama Cemetery, Tokyo, Japan
Education: Sapporo Kosei High School, Tamagawa Academy High School
Location: Hibiya Public Hall, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
Date: October 12, 1960 3:05p.m.
Target: Inejirō Asanuma, Chairman of the Japan Socialist Party
Attack type Assassination by stabbing
Weapon: short sword.
Victim: Inejirō Asanuma
Perpetrator: Otoya Yamaguchi
Died: November 2, 1960, Nerima City, Tokyo, Japan
Place of burial: Aoyama Cemetery, Tokyo, Japan
Education: Sapporo Kosei High School, Tamagawa Academy High School
Location: Hibiya Public Hall, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
Date: October 12, 1960 3:05p.m.
Target: Inejirō Asanuma, Chairman of the Japan Socialist Party
Attack type Assassination by stabbing
Weapon: short sword.
Victim: Inejirō Asanuma
Perpetrator: Otoya Yamaguchi
Member of a right-wing Uyoku dantai group, famous for assassinating the head of the Japan Socialist Party, Inejiro Asanuma, by wakizashi (a Japanese sword that entered Asanuma on the left side of his stomach) on October 12, 1960 at Tokyo's Hibiya Hall during a political debate in advance of parliamentary elections on live television. Less than three weeks after the assassination, while being held in a juvenile detention facility, Yamaguchi mixed a small amount of tooth paste with water and wrote on his cell wall, "Seven lives for my country. Ten thousand years for His Imperial Majesty, the Emperor!" Yamaguchi then knotted strips of his bedsheet into a makeshift rope and used it to hang himself from a light fixture. He was 17 years old∼Born: February 22, 1943, Taito City, Tokyo, Japan
Died: November 2, 1960, Nerima City, Tokyo, Japan
Place of burial: Aoyama Cemetery, Tokyo, Japan
Education: Sapporo Kosei High School, Tamagawa Academy High School
Location: Hibiya Public Hall, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
Date: October 12, 1960 3:05p.m.
Target: Inejirō Asanuma, Chairman of the Japan Socialist Party
Attack type Assassination by stabbing
Weapon: short sword.
Victim: Inejirō Asanuma
Perpetrator: Otoya Yamaguchi
Died: November 2, 1960, Nerima City, Tokyo, Japan
Place of burial: Aoyama Cemetery, Tokyo, Japan
Education: Sapporo Kosei High School, Tamagawa Academy High School
Location: Hibiya Public Hall, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
Date: October 12, 1960 3:05p.m.
Target: Inejirō Asanuma, Chairman of the Japan Socialist Party
Attack type Assassination by stabbing
Weapon: short sword.
Victim: Inejirō Asanuma
Perpetrator: Otoya Yamaguchi
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