SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Otoya Yamaguchi

1943 - 1960

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Otoya Yamaguchi has received more than 1,745,077 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Otoya Yamaguchi is the 166th most popular social activist (up from 180th in 2019), the 317th most popular biography from Japan (up from 347th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Japanese Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Otoya Yamaguchi ranks 166 out of 840. Before him are Rudi Dutschke, Alexander Pechersky, Mordechai Vanunu, Maria Spiridonova, Frederick Douglass, and Rigoberta Menchú. After him are René Just Haüy, Kittur Chennamma, Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid, Vladimir Bukovsky, Emilie Schindler, and Ilya Ulyanov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Otoya Yamaguchi ranks 107. Before him are Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela, Ulay, Mustafa Dzhemilev, Thomas J. Sargent, Finn E. Kydland, and Eric Idle. After him are Vint Cerf, Holland Taylor, Abdul-Aziz ibn Abdullah Al ash-Sheikh, Chevy Chase, Chris Amon, and Lyudmila Ulitskaya. Among people deceased in 1960, Otoya Yamaguchi ranks 39. Before him are Soghomon Tehlirian, Inejiro Asanuma, Archduchess Elisabeth Amalie of Austria, Victor Klemperer, Paul Abraham, and Jacques Becker. After him are Norodom Suramarit, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Eddie Cochran, Frank Lloyd, Jussi Björling, and Beno Gutenberg.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Otoya Yamaguchi ranks 317 out of 6,245. Before him are Emperor Fushimi (1265), Waichiro Omura (1933), Go Nagai (1945), Jiroemon Kimura (1897), Emperor Seiwa (850), and Masayoshi Son (1957). After him are Mitsuo Fuchida (1902), Tokugawa Iemochi (1846), Kondō Isami (1834), Tsuguharu Foujita (1886), Nobuyuki Abe (1875), and Kikunae Ikeda (1864).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Japan

Among social activists born in Japan, Otoya Yamaguchi ranks 4. Before him are Sadako Sasaki (1943), Sakamoto Ryōma (1836), and Ishikawa Goemon (1558). After him are Itagaki Taisuke (1837), Kōtoku Shūsui (1871), Ninomiya Sontoku (1787), Toyohiko Kagawa (1888), Ōsugi Sakae (1885), Gotō Shōjirō (1838), Megumi Yokota (1964), and Akira Amano (1973).

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