List of Famous people named Otoya

Similar names: Otto, Ota, Otho, Otti, Oti, Ott, Otte. Here are some famous Otoyas:

Otoya Yamaguchi

First Name Otoya

Last Name Yamaguchi

Born on February 22, 1943

Died on November 2, 1960 (aged 17)

Born in Japan, Tokyo

Otoya Yamaguchi 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 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. After being arrested and interrogated, Yamaguchi committed suicide while in a detention facility.

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