Yamagochi's Assassination

After his arrest, yama guchi o toya was kept in a holding cell until november second, 19 60. On that day he scrawled the phrases, tenno heka banzai, long live the emperor and shi se ho koku - roughly would that i had seven lives to give for my country. Then he tied his bed sheets together and hanged himself. Ever since, right wing groups have commemorated his death every November 2nd. Article 21 of japan's post war con tion guaranteed the right to free expression. But starting in the late fifties, the rangefree expression began to narrow. The so called shimanaka incident was something of