Asahi Shimbun remembers reporter killed in 1987 rightist attack

The Asahi Shimbun newspaper Thursday remembered a 29-year-old reporter killed in a 1987 shooting at its western Japan bureau in an attack claimed by ultra-rightists angered by the major daily's "antinational" reporting.Local residents paid tribute at the bureau in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, while the newspaper company's officials renewed their pledge to defend freedom of the press on the 31st anniversary of the killing."It is important that we pass on the lesson from the incident to younger generations so that he will live on in our hearts," said Hideo Kitamura, a 68-year-old former civ…READ FULL ARTICLE