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May 20, 1930 Tokyo, Japan Died on 02 May 2009 (aged 78)
Japanese photographer
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About Yasushi Nagao
- Yasushi Nagao (?? ?, Nagao Yasushi, May 20, 1930 – May 2, 2009) was a Japanese Pulitzer Prize-winning press photographer. Nagao is best known for his photograph of Otoya Yamaguchi assassinating Japanese Socialist Party politician Inejiro Asanuma.
- At the time Nagao was a cameraman working for Mainichi Shimbun; Hisatake Abo, Nagao's picture editor, told Nagao to cover a debate at Hibiya Hall.
- As Yamaguchi challenged Asanuma, Nagao changed the focus to fifteen feet from ten feet.Nagao won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and the 1960 World Press Photo of the Year award.
- The second award allowed Nagao to travel abroad widely, impossible for most Japanese people at the time.Nagao left the newspaper in 1962 and became a freelance photographer.Nagao was discovered collapsed in his bathroom on May 2, 2009.
- It is believed he died of natural causes.
