00:00In October 1960, a murder was broadcast live on Japanese television.
00:05Inijiro Asanuma was the leader of Japan's Socialist Party.
00:09He was mid-speech at a political rally in Tokyo,
00:12standing at a podium in front of hundreds of people in live cameras
00:15when a 17-year-old walked onto the stage.
00:18His name was Yamaguchi Otoya.
00:20He carried a sword.
00:21What happened next lasted less than three seconds.
00:24A photographer named Yasushi Nagao captured the exact moment of the killing,
00:29not before, not after.
00:31The precise instant.
00:33The image ran in newspapers around the world and won the Pulitzer Prize.
00:37But here is what makes this story impossible to shake.
00:41Everyone saw it.
00:42The crowd saw it.
00:43The cameras saw it.
00:45All of Japan watched it happen in real time, and no one could stop it.
00:49No one could even react before it was over.
00:51Yamaguchi was arrested and held in a detention cell.
00:5423 days later, he wrote a message on his cell wall using his own blood,
00:59then took his own life.
01:00He was still 17 years old.
