included a re-enactment of the 1960 assassination of Japanese socialist party leader Inejiro Asanuma by a young right-wing nationalist in which the part of the assassin was played by top right ...

Inejiro Asanuma was the leader of the Japan Socialist Party, known for being a strong advocate of the Chinese Communist Party. Controversial for his socialist views, Asanuma was assassinated ...

In October 1960, following a series of mass, violent protests against the renewal of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty, the chair of the Socialist Party, Inejiro Asanuma, was attacked and stabbed to ...