Inejiro Asanuma assassination - Pulitzer prize winning Photograph 1960


Inejiro Asanuma was a Japanese politician, public speaker and a socialist .This is the Pulitzer prize winning photograph for the year 1960 by Yashusi Nagao. The assassinator in the photo is Otaya Yamaguchi. This photograph is taken while withdrawing knife after stabbing Asanuma. The picture has also got 1960 world press award.