Tomohiro Kojiri

Tomohiro Kojiri , a Japanese journalist for Asahi Shimbun, a popular newspaper with its main office is located in Tokyo, Japan, was killed in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture near Osaka. During the shooting at the bureau of Asahi Shimbun, the shooter killed Tomohiro and fired at two other colleagues injuring one. Investigators believed that Kojiri was targeted by a right-wing, political extremist group, known as Sekihōtai (赤報隊), as Kojiri had written a story that was about how the Japanese discriminated against the Korean minority, and typed letters were sent in the group's name claiming responsibility.