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Kazutaka Komori

Japanese assassin

  • Fame44.8
  • Momentum1.1
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Lived 1943–1971, aged 28Japan
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    1943–1971
    Aged 28
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Updated 2026-08-13

Kazutaka Komori was a Japanese right-wing ultranationalist youth who attempted to assassinate Japanese journalist and magazine publisher Hōji Shimanaka in February 1961, in what became known as the Shimanaka incident. Komori sought retribution for a fictional story published in one of Shimanaka's magazines which featured a dream sequence in which the Emperor and Empress were beheaded by a guillotine. Shimanaka was away from home at the time of Komori's assault, and he ended up stabbing Shimanaka's wife and murdering his housemaid. Komori was 17 years old at the time of his attack.

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