Hitoshi Igarashi , his Japanese translator , was stabbed to death on 11 July 1991 . Ettore Capriolo , the Italian translator , was seriously injured in a stabbing in Milan on 3 July 1991 .
As a result , Hitoshi Igarashi , the Japanese language translator of the book was stabbed to death on July 11 , 1991 ; Ettore Capriolo , the Italian language translator , was seriously injured in a stabbing the same month .