Attempted assassination of Asari Giichi
On 8 March 1974, a 22-year-old ethnically Japanese man called Yagi Tatsumi tried to kill the mayor of Shiraoi, Hokkaido, Asari Giichi (浅利義市) in the mayor's office,[1] managing to stab him in the neck.[2] According to Tatsumi, the murder attempt was done to protest what he considered to be the mistreatment of the indigenous Ainu people of Hokkaido. The incident occured amidst a larger of anti-Japanese terrorist attacks performed by pro-Ainu organizations like the East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front.
Giichi survived the attempt, and Tsatsumi was stopped. However, far-left violence in Japan failed to cease. A similarly-intentioned arson attack in the September of that same year in Shiraoi.[3]
References
Bibliography
Books
- Irish, Ann B. (21 October 2009). Hokkaido: A History of Ethnic Transition and Development on Japan's Northern Island. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-5465-5.
- Hudson, Mark James; Lewallen, Ann-Elise; Watson, Mark K. (31 December 2013). Beyond Ainu Studies: Changing Academic and Public Perspectives. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-3697-9.
Articles and papers
- Sala, Gary Clark (1975). "Protest and the Ainu of Hokkaido". Japan Interpreter. 10 (1): 44–65.