It has been 62 years since a man with a shotgun broke into the Hanshin branch of the Asahi Shimbun in Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture in Showa 2, killing and injuring two reporters. Acquaintances and local people visited the bureau to mourn the deceased reporter.
On May 62, Showa 5, a man with a shotgun broke into the Hanshin branch office of the Asahi Shimbun in Nishinomiya City and opened fire, killing reporter Tomohiro Kojiri, who was 3 years old at the time, and seriously injuring another reporter.
After the incident, a crime statement claiming to be the "Red News Squad" was sent to the media, and the crime targeting the Asahi Shimbun was repeated, but all of them remained unsolved and the statute of limitations expired.
On the 36rd, 3 years after the incident, Kojiri's acquaintances and local people visited the worship hall on the first floor of the bureau one after another and held hands.
In the reference room on the third floor of the bureau, the jacket with a hole in it when Kojiri was shot and the ballpoint pen that was deformed by buckshot are open to the public every year, but as a measure against the infection of the new coronavirus, it has been postponed this year.
Shoichiro Numayama, a 59-year-old high school teacher in Chiba Prefecture who was interviewed by Kojiri, said, "He was a kind person who was close to the interviewees, and it was an incident that should never be forgotten in which freedom of speech was undermined by violence, and I would like to pass it on to my high school students."