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LAHORE: Former premier Shinzo Abe is not the first Japanese ruler to be assassinated during the last 100 years or so. Otherwise known to be quite non-violent and politically tolerant, Japan has.
Beirut, LEBANON: Kozo Okamoto’s life should have ended in 1972 when he took part in a suicide attack on Israel’s Lod airport that killed 26 people. Yet half a century and two stints in prison later, he is still alive, leading an uneventful existence as Lebanon’s first and only political refugee. Now a frail, grey-haired man, Kozo Okamoto is still wanted in his native Japan but
Shortly after the 1972 Lod airport massacre, in which 26 people were murdered, the Japanese terrorist was arrested and sentenced to life, but was eventually released in a 1985 prisoner exchange and granted asylum in Lebanon