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EDITORIAL: 1987 assault on Asahi Shimbun forever a stain on our society | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis asahi.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from asahi.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
As this year’s Constitution Day on May 3 rolls around, we remain firmly committed to reject any form of violent attacks against freedom of speech and expression.
The Asahi Shimbun on Tuesday paid tribute to the memory of a 29-year-old reporter who was shot to death in his office at the newspaper’s bureau in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, on May 3, 1987. A man in a ski mask shot reporter Tomohiro Kojiri and his colleague, Hyoe Inukai, with a shotgun. Kojiri died,…