' Electric Whiskers' Captive Here With 8 Other Italian Generals; ITALIAN GENERALS PRISONERS IN U.S.
Date: 22 February 1943
By The United Press
Presence in US as Allied war prisoner revealed
Otoya Yamaguchi (山口 二矢, Yamaguchi Otoya; 22 February 1943 – 2 November 1960) was a Japanese right-wing ultranationalist youth who assassinated Inejirō Asanuma, chairman of the Japan Socialist Party, on 12 October 1960.
Yamaguchi rushed the stage and stabbed Asanuma with a wakizashi-like short sword while Asanuma was participating in a televised election debate at Hibiya Public Hall in Tokyo. Yamaguchi, who was 17 years of age at the time, had been a member of Bin Akao's far-right Greater Japan Patriotic Party, but had resigned earlier that year, just prior to the assassination. After being arrested and interrogated, Yamaguchi committed suicide while in a detention facility.
Yamaguchi became a hero and a martyr to Japanese far-right groups, who as of 2022, have continued to hold commemorations to this day. Yamaguchi's actions inspired a number of copycat crimes, including the Shimanaka incident in 1961, and inspired Nobel Prize-winning novelist Kenzaburō Ōe's novellas Seventeen and Death of a Political Youth. A photograph of the assassination taken by Japanese photojournalist Yasushi Nagao won World Press Photo of the Year for 1960 and the 1961 Pulitzer Prize.
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Date: 22 February 1943
By The United Press
Presence in US as Allied war prisoner revealed
Date: 23 February 1943
Elected Amer Assn of Ad Agencies member
Date: 23 February 1943
Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES
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Date: 23 February 1943
Leaflets giving Eastern Front fighting details dropped over Rumania and Bulgaria
Date: 23 February 1943
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Date: 22 February 1943
Tass denies rept
Date: 22 February 1943
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