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 ''

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''; Hisatake Abo, Nagao's picture editor, told Nagao to cover a debate at Hibiya Hall. As Yamaguchi challenged Asanuma, Nagao changed the focus to fifteen feet from ten feet. Nagao won the 1960

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award and the 1961 Pulitzer Prize. 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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