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Abe is the sixth Japanese PM assassinated.
by potatototoo99 4y ago
Abe is the sixth Japanese PM assassinated.
- chronogram 4y agoI don't think these people were in the same area all those times.
- jpoesen 4y agoLet's put that in context shall we: the last Japanese PM assassination before Abe was close to 100 years ago.
- slightwinder 4y agoTechnically true, but looking it up, it seems the last PM was killed in 1936. Additionally, in the 192x and 193x many high ranking politicians died, of which were many PM or former PM.
- KineticLensman 4y agoCould you list them please? Some googling got me the following, which includes survivors and non prime-ministers. * November 14, 1930, Yukio Hamaguchi * May 15, 1932, 11 Prime Minister Takeshi Inuyo * July 14, 1960, Nobusuke Kishi (survived an assassination attempt) * October 12, 1960, left-wing Japanese Rep. Inajiro Asanuma * October 25, 2002, Ishii Hiroki (opposition leader) * April 17, 2007, the mayor of Nagasaki, Kazucho Ito * July 2022: Shinzo Abe I started with https://www.tellerreport.com/news/2022-07-08-looking-back-on-japanese-history--there-have-been-many-prime-ministers-and-congressmen-who-were-assassinated.Hywy8IwSj9.html https://www.tellerreport.com/news/2022-07-08-looking-back-on...
- areyousure 4y ago2022 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinzo_Abe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinzo_Abe 1936 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sait%C5%8D_Makoto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sait%C5%8D_Makoto 1936 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takahashi_Korekiyo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takahashi_Korekiyo (same incident as previous) 1932 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inukai_Tsuyoshi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inukai_Tsuyoshi 1931 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamaguchi_Osachi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamaguchi_Osachi (initially survived assassination attempt, but succumbed to his wounds) 1921 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hara_Takashi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hara_Takashi 1909 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%C5%8D_Hirobumi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%C5%8D_Hirobumi See also: 1878 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Ckubo_Toshimichi#cite_note-7 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Ckubo_Toshimichi#cite_not...