List of massacres in Japan
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The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Japan:
Date | Name | Location | Perpetrator | Deaths | Notes |
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12–15 April 1638 | Mass beheadings at the final days of the Shimabara revolt | inside and around Hara Castle, Minamishimabara | Shogunate army | 37,000 | Rebels and sympathizers were beheaded by military forces. Afterwards, the Hara Castle was also burned to the ground. |
December 1696 | Yoshiwara spree killing | Yoshiwara | Sano Jirōzaemon | ? | |
1 March 1919 | March 1st demonstrations | Korea under Japanese rule | Imperial Japanese Army | 7,509 | 15,849 Koreans wounded[citation needed] |
October 1920 | Gando massacre | Jiandao | Imperial Japanese Army | 5,000+[1] | |
July 1922 | Shinano River incident | Shinano River | Okura zaibatsu | 100+ | Documentation on death incomplete |
September 1923 | Kantō Massacre | Kantō region | Imperial Japanese Army, police and vigilantes | 6,000+ | Multiple incidents |
May 1938 | Tsuyama massacre | Tsuyama | Mutsuo Toi | 30 | 3 injured |
July 1945 | Hanaoka incident | Ōdate | Imperial Japanese Army | 418 | 113 prisoners of war executed; 307 also died |
26 January 1948 | Teigin case | Tokyo | Sadamichi Hirasawa | 12 | False verdict suspected |
15 July 1949 | Mitaka incident | Tokyo | Keisuke Takeuchi | 8 | 20 injured. False verdict suspected |
30 August 1974 | Mitsubishi bombing | Tokyo | East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front | 8 | 376 injured |
4 November 1989 | Sakamoto family murder | Yokohama | Aum Shinrikyo | 3 | |
27–28 June 1994 | Matsumoto incident | Matsumoto | Aum Shinrikyo | 8 | 500+ injured[2] |
20 March 1995 | Tokyo subway sarin attack | Tokyo | Aum Shinrikyo | 13 | 6,252 injured |
25 July 1998 | Wakayama arsenic poison case | Sonobe district of Wakayama, Wakayama | Masumi Hayashi | 4 | 64 injured[3] |
29 September 1999 | Shimonoseki Station massacre | Shimonoseki | Yasuaki Uwabe | 5 | 10 injured |
20 December 2000 | Setagaya family murder | Setagaya | Unknown | 4 | Perpetrator never caught |
8 June 2001 | Osaka school massacre | Ikeda | Mamoru Takuma | 8 | 15 injured |
1 September 2001 | Myojo 56 building fire | Shinjuku | Unknown | 44 | Perpetrator never caught |
8 June 2008 | Akihabara massacre | Chiyoda | Tomohiro Katō | 7 | 10 injured |
1 October 2008 | Osaka Movie Theater fire[4] | Osaka | Kazuhiro Ogawa | 16 | Perpetrator's name never revealed to the public.[dubious ] |
21-22 July 2013 | Yamaguchi arson and murders | Mitake | Kosei Homi | 5 | |
26 July 2016 | Sagamihara stabbings | Sagamihara | Satoshi Uematsu | 19 | 26 injured |
6 October 2017 | Hitachi City apartment arson[5] | Ibaraki | Hirobumi Komatsu | 6 | |
28 May 2019 | Kawasaki stabbings | Kawasaki | Ryuichi Iwasaki[6] | 3 | 16 injured |
18 July 2019 | Kyoto Animation arson attack | Kyoto | Shinji Aoba | 36 | 33 injured[7] |
References[]
- ^ Eckhardt Fuchs, Tokushi Kasahara, Sven Saaler (4 December 2017). A New Modern History of East Asia. p. 196. ISBN 978-3737007085. Retrieved 2018-03-03.
The Japanese forces then carried out the Gando Massacre, in which they indiscriminately attacked Koreans living in Eastern Manchuria and other regions, killing over 5,000 and burning down more than 3,500 homes.
CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Incident Summary for GTDID: 199406270007". www.start.umd.edu.
- ^ "Courts ignore reasonable doubt: lawyers". The Japan Times. 2006-11-16. Archived from the original on 2008-10-25. Retrieved 2008-02-04.
- ^ Fox News:Fire at Japanese Adult Video Theater Kills 15
- ^ Channel News Asia Five Children, Women dead in Japan 'arson attack':Reports
- ^ The Japan Times [1]
- ^ "Death toll from arson attack on Kyoto Animation studio rises to 36". japantoday.com. Retrieved 2019-10-05.
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