Gun Attacks On Key Figures In Japan In The Past
There have been several gun attacks on key figures, including politicians, in Japan in the past.
In 1992, a right-wing gunman fired shots at the Liberal Democratic Party's then-Vice President Kanemaru Shin, who was finishing a speech in Tochigi Prefecture, north of Tokyo. Kanemaru was uninjured.
In 1994, former Prime Minister Hosokawa Morihiro was shot at in a Tokyo hotel by a former member of a right-wing group. Hosokawa was unharmed.
In 1990, then-Nagasaki City Mayor Motoshima Hitoshi was seriously injured after being shot by a right-winger.
Another Nagasaki mayor, Ito Itcho, died in 2007 after being gunned down by a member of an organized crime group.
The National Police Agency's then-Commissioner General Kunimatsu Takaji was shot and seriously wounded in front of his residence in Tokyo in 1995.