Comments on: Inejiro Asanuma Assassination Footage (1960) http://neilduckett.com/inejiro-asanuma-assassination-footage-1960 A lot about nothing and nothing about a lot Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:09:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: billywest http://neilduckett.com/inejiro-asanuma-assassination-footage-1960/comment-page-1#comment-3907 billywest Mon, 13 Oct 2008 05:58:49 +0000 http://neilduckett.com/?p=522#comment-3907 Well, that settles it... I'm giving up my career in Japanese politics. Well, that settles it… I’m giving up my career in Japanese politics.

]]> By: Jordan http://neilduckett.com/inejiro-asanuma-assassination-footage-1960/comment-page-1#comment-3896 Jordan Sun, 12 Oct 2008 10:52:14 +0000 http://neilduckett.com/?p=522#comment-3896 Oe Kenzaburo wrote a short story about this lad called "Seventeen." If you get a chance, go pick up a copy and read it. I thought it was a brilliant attack on the uyoku mindset that created tragic individuals like Yamaguchi. I mean, he was just a kid. Who the hell put this kind of crap into his mind? Oe Kenzaburo wrote a short story about this lad called “Seventeen.” If you get a chance, go pick up a copy and read it. I thought it was a brilliant attack on the uyoku mindset that created tragic individuals like Yamaguchi. I mean, he was just a kid. Who the hell put this kind of crap into his mind?

]]> By: Jordan http://neilduckett.com/inejiro-asanuma-assassination-footage-1960/comment-page-1#comment-3895 Jordan Sun, 12 Oct 2008 10:50:03 +0000 http://neilduckett.com/?p=522#comment-3895 I remember being dumb founded when I first saw this video. Absolutely brutal in a civilized sort of way. I remember being dumb founded when I first saw this video. Absolutely brutal in a civilized sort of way.

]]> By: -Paul http://neilduckett.com/inejiro-asanuma-assassination-footage-1960/comment-page-1#comment-3887 -Paul Sun, 12 Oct 2008 05:29:28 +0000 http://neilduckett.com/?p=522#comment-3887 that's one crazy assassination.. that’s one crazy assassination..

]]> By: Neil http://neilduckett.com/inejiro-asanuma-assassination-footage-1960/comment-page-1#comment-3885 Neil Sun, 12 Oct 2008 04:51:56 +0000 http://neilduckett.com/?p=522#comment-3885 "Less than three weeks later, while being held in a juvenile detention facility, Yamaguchi mixed a small amount of tooth paste with water and wrote on his cell wall, "Seven lives for my country. Ten thousand years for His Imperial Majesty, the Emperor!" Yamaguchi then knotted strips of his bedsheet into a makeshift rope and used it to hang himself from a light fixture." - wikipedia has the answers once again. “Less than three weeks later, while being held in a juvenile detention facility, Yamaguchi mixed a small amount of tooth paste with water and wrote on his cell wall, “Seven lives for my country. Ten thousand years for His Imperial Majesty, the Emperor!” Yamaguchi then knotted strips of his bedsheet into a makeshift rope and used it to hang himself from a light fixture.” – wikipedia has the answers once again.

]]> By: Chris B http://neilduckett.com/inejiro-asanuma-assassination-footage-1960/comment-page-1#comment-3882 Chris B Sun, 12 Oct 2008 01:23:44 +0000 http://neilduckett.com/?p=522#comment-3882 17-year-old Otoya Yamaguchi What happened to him?? Meanwhile... That was a big f'ing knife/sword!!!! 17-year-old Otoya Yamaguchi

What happened to him??

Meanwhile…
That was a big f’ing knife/sword!!!!

]]> By: xorsyst http://neilduckett.com/inejiro-asanuma-assassination-footage-1960/comment-page-1#comment-3879 xorsyst Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:01:44 +0000 http://neilduckett.com/?p=522#comment-3879 That is crazy. It seems the 1960s was filled with all sorts of radical chaos no matter where you were in the world. That is crazy. It seems the 1960s was filled with all sorts of radical chaos no matter where you were in the world.

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