Ex-Asahi reporter severely wounded in 1987 shooting dies
Jiji -- Jan 20
Hyoe Inukai, a former Asahi Shimbun reporter who was severely wounded in a 1987 deadly shooting attack on a bureau of the major Japanese newspaper publisher, died on Tuesday, it was learned Friday. He was 73.

Inukai passed away at a hospital in Kagawa Prefecture, western Japan. The cause of death is believed to have been sudden cardiac death.

Inukai was at the Hanshin bureau in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on the night of May 3, 1987, when a balaclava-wearing man attacked the bureau with a shotgun. A 29-year-old reporter, Tomohiro Kojiri, was killed in the incident.

Inukai survived but was injured by more than 200 shotgun pellets, losing the third and fourth fingers of his right hand.

A group calling itself "Sekihotai" (red revenge squad) claimed responsibility for the attack, which remained unsolved when the statute of limitations period for it expired in 2002.

News source: Jiji