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EDITORIAL We renew our commitment to speak in 30th year from attackMay 2, 2017 Journalist Tomohiro Kojiri’s low-grade manuscript paper was stained with blood. The cover of a ruled notebook he used to take notes for stories he was working on bore the neatly written words, “Case Notes Kojiri.”
VOX POPULI Free speech still the big issue 30 years after Asahi reporter slainMay 2, 2017 A man wearing a balaclava stormed the Hanshin Bureau of The Asahi Shimbun on May 3, 1987. Without uttering a word of warning or protest, he aimed a shotgun at the reporters there and opened fire. Tomohiro Kojiri was shot in the abdomen and died from loss of blood. He was 29.

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