Inejiro Asanuma est mort le 12 octobre 1960. Le responsable de sa mort, Otoya Yamaguchi, avait 17 ans et il s’est suicidé trois semaines plus tard.

In a bleak cell at a Tokyo juvenile detention home one night last week, a mop-haired teenager mixed a palmful of tooth powder with a few drops of water and scrawled a message on the wall: “Seven lives for my country. Ten thousand years for His Imperial Majesty, the Emperor!” Then Otoya Yamaguchi, 17, tore his bed sheet into strips, knotted them into a rope, stood up on a toilet bowl and hanged himself from the light fixture in the ceiling. Yamaguchi, who last month stabbed Socialist Chairman Inejiro Asanuma to death at a political rally, had lived his bloody samurai tradition to the end. His suicide was an act of owabi—apology to those inconvenienced by his murder of Asanuma.

…pouvait-on lire dans le Time du 14 novembre.

Rien qu’un cheval échappé aurait dit Mishima…

Yasushi Nagao a reçu le Pulitzer pour cette photo.

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Source : World’s Famous Photos.