About Yasushi Nagao
Lived 1930 – 2009 (aged 78). Yasushi Nagao was a Japanese photographer and journalist.
was a Japanese photojournalist. He became the first Japanese to win the Pulitzer Prize for his 1960 photograph capturing the moment Inejirō Asanuma, chairman of the Japan Socialist Party, was stabbed to death.
Nagao won the 1960 World Press Photo of the Year award and the 1961 Pulitzer Prize. The first 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.
Death Nagao was found dead in the bathroom of his apartment in the Shimogamo district of Minamiizu on 2 May 2009. It is believed he died of natural causes.
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Who was Yasushi Nagao?
Japanese photographer (1930–2009)
When was Yasushi Nagao born?
Yasushi Nagao was born on 20 May 1930 in Tokyo.
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Yasushi Nagao died on 2 May 2009.
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Yasushi Nagao was a photographer and journalist.
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Yasushi Nagao was Japanese.
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