was a Japanese press photographer. Nagao is best known for his photograph of Otoya Yamaguchi

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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 charged Asanuma, Nagao changed the focus to fifteen feet from ten feet. Tokyo Stabbing

Nagao won the 1960 World Press Photo of the Year award and the

1961 Pulitzer Prize The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1961. Journalism awards *Public Service: ** The '' Amarillo Globe-Times'', for "exposing a breakdown in local law enforcement with resultant punitive action that swept lax officials from their posts and br ...

. The first award allowed Nagao to travel abroad widely, impossible for most Japanese people at the time.Untitled page about this photograph
"In pictures: 50 years of photojournalism", ''BBC'' Nagao left the newspaper in 1962 and became a freelance photographer.
. The Mainichi Daily News. May 4, 2009. Nagao was discovered collapsed in his bathroom on 2 May 2009. It is believed he died of natural causes.

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*Faber, John. ''Great News Photos and the Stories Behind Them.'' 2nd ed. New York: Dover, 1978.
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