Toranomon incident
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Daisuke Namba |
The Toranomon incident (虎ノ門事件, Toranomon Jiken) was an assassination attempt on
communist Daisuke Nanba.[1]
The incident took place at the
Shūsui Kōtoku, who had been executed for his alleged role in the High Treason Incident of 1910. He also wanted to avenge the killings of thousands of Koreans and Japanese leftists in the Kantō Massacre
.
Although Nanba claimed that he was rational (a view agreed upon in the court records), he was proclaimed insane to the public, sentenced to death on 13 November 1924, and executed two days later.[3]
House of Peers not associated with any political party. The Toranomon Incident was cited later by the government as one of the justifications for the Peace Preservation Law
of 1925.
See also
- Amakasu Incident
- Fumiko Kaneko
- Park Yeol
References
- ^ "Kozo Okamoto's long life after Israel suicide mission". France 24. 2022-05-31. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
- ^ a b Bix, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan, pp. 140–141
- ^ Hernon, Matthew (2021-05-15). "TW's List of 7: Notorious Assassination Plots in Japan". Tokyo Weekender. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
- ISBN 0-06-093130-2.
- Nish, Ian (2002). Japanese Foreign Policy in the Interwar Period. Praeger Publishers. ISBN 0-275-94791-2.
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