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Street performer dances to pray for Kojiri

AMAGASAKI, Japan - Street performer Giriyark Amagasaki dances in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, on May 3 to pray for Tomohiro Kojiri, an Asahi Shimbun reporter fatally shot in 1987 by a suspected right-wing extremist at the newspaper's bureau in Nishinomiya in the prefecture.

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Poet writes poem to pray for Kojiri

AMAGASAKI, Japan - Haiku poet Daiyu Kiwari writes a poem in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, on May 3, to pray for Tomohiro Kojiri, an Asahi Shimbun reporter fatally shot in 1987 by a suspected right-wing extremist at the newspaper's bureau in Nishinomiya in the prefecture.

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(1)Statute of limitations expires for reporter's murder

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Hyogo prefectural police head Kaoru Okada (in pool photo) prays May 3 for the repose of Tomohiro Kojiri, an Asahi Shimbun reporter fatally shot in 1987 by a suspected right-wing extremist at the newspaper's bureau in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture. The statute of limitations for the 1987 murder expired at midnight May 2 without an arrest.

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(2)Statute of limitations expires for reporter's murder

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Nobukatsu Kojiri (R) and his wife Miyoko visit the tomb of their son Tomohiro, an Asahi Shimbun reporter fatally shot in 1987 by a suspected right-wing extremist at the newspaper's bureau in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture. The statute of limitations for the 1987 murder expired at midnight May 2 without an arrest.

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(1)Statute of limitations expires for reporter's murder

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Hyogo prefectural police head Kaoru Okada (in pool photo) prays May 3 for the repose of Tomohiro Kojiri, an Asahi Shimbun reporter fatally shot in 1987 by a suspected right-wing extremist at the newspaper's bureau in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture. The statute of limitations for the 1987 murder expired at midnight May 2 without an arrest.

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(2)Statute of limitations expires for reporter's murder

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Nobukatsu Kojiri (R) and his wife Miyoko visit the tomb of their son Tomohiro, an Asahi Shimbun reporter fatally shot in 1987 by a suspected right-wing extremist at the newspaper's bureau in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture. The statute of limitations for the 1987 murder expired at midnight May 2 without an arrest.

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32nd anniv. of shooting of reporter in Japan

Asahi Shimbun reporter Kenji Takayama prays in front of the grave of fellow reporter Tomohiro Kojiri in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, on May 3, 2019, exactly 32 years after Kojiri was shot to death by a masked man who stormed the newspaper's bureau in Nishinomiya, western Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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32nd anniv. of shooting of reporter in Japan

Senior officials of The Asahi Shimbun pray in front of the grave of reporter Tomohiro Kojiri in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, on May 3, 2019, exactly 32 years after he was shot to death by a masked man who stormed the newspaper's bureau in Nishinomiya, western Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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32nd anniv. of shooting of reporter in Japan

A man prays on May 3, 2019, in front of an altar set up at The Asahi Shimbun's Nishinomiya bureau in western Japan for Tomohiro Kojiri, a reporter for the newspaper who was killed in a gun attack claimed by a group angered by the daily's "antinational" reporting at the bureau on the same day in 1987. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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32nd anniv. of shooting of reporter in Japan

A woman prays on May 3, 2019, in front of an altar set up at The Asahi Shimbun's Nishinomiya bureau in western Japan for Tomohiro Kojiri, a reporter for the newspaper who was killed in a gun attack claimed by a group angered by the daily's "antinational" reporting at the bureau on the same day in 1987. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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32nd anniv. of shooting of reporter in Japan

A man prays on May 3, 2019, in front of an altar set up at The Asahi Shimbun's Nishinomiya bureau in western Japan for Tomohiro Kojiri, a reporter for the newspaper who was killed in a gun attack claimed by a group angered by the daily's "antinational" reporting at the bureau on the same day in 1987. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Street performer dances to pray for Kojiri

AMAGASAKI, Japan - Street performer Giriyark Amagasaki dances in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, on May 3 to pray for Tomohiro Kojiri, an Asahi Shimbun reporter fatally shot in 1987 by a suspected right-wing extremist at the newspaper's bureau in Nishinomiya in the prefecture.

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Poet writes poem to pray for Kojiri

AMAGASAKI, Japan - Haiku poet Daiyu Kiwari writes a poem in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, on May 3, to pray for Tomohiro Kojiri, an Asahi Shimbun reporter fatally shot in 1987 by a suspected right-wing extremist at the newspaper's bureau in Nishinomiya in the prefecture.