Death
Murai was mortally wounded when an ethnic Korean man named Hiroyuki Jo (徐裕行 Jo Hiroyuki), a member of the Yamaguchi-gumi (the largest organized crime Yakuza group in Japan), stabbed Murai repeatedly, in the presence of 10 police officers and about a hundred reporters recording the events and broadcasting them live. His attackers didn't attempt to flee and was peacefully arrested on the spot. Murai died in an ambulance.
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| Name | Murai, Hideo |
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| Date of birth | December 5, 1958 |
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| Date of death | April 23, 1995 |
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