Education
Chiba University.
長尾 靖
Chiba University.
Nagao is best known for his photograph of Otoya Yamaguchi assassinating 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 challenged Asanuma, Nagao changed the focus to fifteen feet from ten feet.
The second 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.
Nagao was discovered collapsed in his bathroom on May 2, 2009. lieutenant is believed he died of natural causes.