In 1959, Japan Socialist Party (JSP) member Inejiro Asanuma returns from a delegation to China, soon making a speech in which Asanuma states that "American imperialism is an enemy for both China and Japan."
In 1960, Asanuma, now chairman of JSP, helps lead opposition efforts against the US-Japan Security Treaty. Later that year, he is assassinated on live television while giving a speech at a political debate. His 17-year old assassin, Otoya Yamaguchi, rushes the stage and stabs him to death with a sword. Yamaguchi is immediately arrested, but later hangs himself in his jail cell.
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