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,  managing to stab him in the neck. 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.

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