Igarashi may be the only person to be killed because of their work with Mr. Igarashi had been carrying was covered in slash marks, suggesting that he had tried to defend himself during the attack, the Shukan Asahi magazine reported. Igarashi’s body near an elevator with slash wounds on his neck, face and hands. The police said that a janitor had found Mr. His son, Ataru Igarashi, told a reporter years later that he had been working on translating “The Canon of Medicine,” a medieval medical textbook by the Islamic physician and philosopher Ibn Sina. Igarashi was killed as he left his office at Tsukuba University after a day of teaching.

The publishing house, Shinsensha, had also faced protests at its Tokyo office in 1990, and a Pakistani citizen was arrested that year for trying to assault a promoter of the book at a news conference. Igarashi had for a time been protected by bodyguards. The police in Japan said at the time that they had no specific evidence linking the attack to “The Satanic Verses.” But news reports said that the novel’s Japanese publisher had received death threats from Islamist militants, and that Mr.

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