Sakuradamon Incident - Sakuradamon Incident

An attempted assassination of Emperor Showa occurred on January 8, 1932 (Showa 7). On the way back from the Army Review, the Emperor's carriage passed in front of the Metropolitan Police Department at Sakuradamon Gate when a grenade was thrown from the crowd, hitting the carriage of the Minister of the Imperial Household. The perpetrator, a Korean named Lee Bong-chang, had been discriminated against by the Japanese after coming to Japan in 1925 (Taisho 14), and in 1930 travelled to Shanghai to join the Korean Independence Party. After his arrest, he was sentenced to death in a special trial. Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi and all the other cabinet members submitted their resignations after the incident, but the Emperor and elder statesman Saionji Kinmochi decided that all of them would remain in their posts.

[Shiro Akazawa]

"Prince Saionji and the Political Situation, Volume 2" by Harada Kumao (1950, Iwanami Shoten)" " The History of the Military Police in the Showa Period" by Otani Keijiro (1966, Misuzu Shobo)

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1932年（昭和7）1月8日に起こった昭和天皇暗殺未遂事件。陸軍観兵式の帰途、天皇の馬車が桜田門の警視庁前を通りかかったとき、群衆中から手榴弾(しゅりゅうだん)が投げられ宮内(くない)大臣の馬車に当たった。犯人の朝鮮人李奉昌(りほうしょう／イボンチャン)は、1925年（大正14）渡日後、日本人から差別を受け、30年上海(シャンハイ)に渡り朝鮮独立党に参加したもので、逮捕後、特別裁判で死刑に処せられた。犬養毅(いぬかいつよし)首相以下全閣僚は事件後、辞表を提出したが、天皇と元老西園寺公望(さいおんじきんもち)の意志で全員留任が決まった。

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『原田熊雄述『西園寺公と政局　第2巻』（1950・岩波書店）』▽『大谷敬二郎著『昭和憲兵史』（1966・みすず書房）』

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