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Hara Takashi assassinated at Tokyo Station this day in 1921
Original: Hara Takashi was the Prime Minister of # Japan from 1918 until his assassination OTD in 1921, stabbed to death by a righ
Posts are marking the anniversary of the assassination of Hara Takashi, Japan's Prime Minister from 1918. He was stabbed to death on this day in 1921 by a right-wing railroad switchman at Tokyo Station. Hara was Japan's first commoner prime minister, and the killing is remembered as a landmark act of right-wing political violence in Taisho-era Japan.
Why now: The anniversary of Hara Takashi's assassination falls on this date, prompting remembrance posts.
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- Hara Takashi was the Prime Minister of # Japan from 1918 until his assassination OTD in 1921, stabbed to death by a right-wing # railroad switchman at Tōkyō Station https:// toilet-guru.com/japan/train.ht ml?s=mb # train # travel # history · bobthetraveler@mastodon.world · 5
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