On this day, 65 years ago, July 14, 1960 (June 21, 1960 in the lunar calendar), Japanese Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi was assassinated. Nobusuke Kishi was born in 1896 in Yamaguchi Prefecture. Graduated from the Department of German and French at the University of Tokyo. In 1936, he served as Minister of Industry of the Puppet Manchukuo State. After returning to China in 1940, he served as Deputy Minister of Commerce and Industry and Minister of Commerce and Industry in the Tojo Cabinet. After the war, he was sentenced to Class A war criminal and imprisoned. He was released in 1952 and elected to the House of Representatives. In 1954, he served as secretary-general of the Democratic Party of Japan, and the following year, he served as secretary-general of the Liberal Democratic Party. In 1956, he served as Foreign Minister of the Ishibashi Cabinet. In February 1957, Ishibashi resigned due to illness, he became Prime Minister. The Kishishi cabinet pursued the policy of following the United States, being hostile to China, and expanding economically into Southeast Asia. On June 19, 1960, the Japan-US Security Treaty was forcibly revised, and on June 23, it exchanged ratifications with the United States in Tokyo. Nobusuke Kishi's action was strongly opposed by the Japanese people. Massive demonstrations and marches were held in various places. The country was in turmoil and the Kishi cabinet faced a crisis under this strong pressure. On July 14, 1960, Nobusuke Kishi attended a reception for the new president of the Liberal Democratic Party, Yuto Ikeda. He was stabbed by Taizu, a member of the right-wing group "Dahua Society", and the cabinet resigned the next day. Massive demonstrations were held in various places, and Nobusuke Kishi stepped down