Otoya Yamaguchi was a Japanese ultranationalist best known for his assassination by sword of Inejiro Asanuma on 12 October 1960 at Tokyo's Hibiya Hall during a political debate for parlimentary elections. He would later commit suicide.
A photograph taken by Yasushi Nagao immediately after Otoya withdraws his sword from Inejiro would later go on to win the 1961 Pulitzer Prize.
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