Sakuradamon Incident (1932)
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| Hangul | 이봉창의사 의거 or 도쿄의거or 사쿠라다문의거 |
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| Kanji | 桜田門事件 | ||||||
| Hiragana | さくらだもんじけん | ||||||
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| Revised Romanization |
I bong-chang uisa uigeo or |
| McCune–Reischauer |
Yi bong-ch'ang ŭisa ŭigŏ or |
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| Romanization | Sakuradamon jiken |
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I bong-chang uisa uigeo or
Dokyo uigeo or
Yi bong-ch'ang ŭisa ŭigŏ or
Tokyo ŭigŏ or
The Sakuradamon Incident or Patriotic Deed of Lee Bong-chang was an assassination attempt against Emperor Hirohito of the Empire of Japan by a Korean independence activist, Lee Bong-chang (hangul: 이봉창, hanja: 李奉昌), in Tokyo on 9 January 1932.
As Emperor Hirohito was departing the Imperial Palace via the Sakuradamon Gate on his way to reviewing a military parade, Lee Bong-chang, a member of the Korean Patriotic Legion (Haninaegukdan, Hangul: 한인애국단, hanja: ) under the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea headed by Kim Gu in Shanghai, threw a hand grenade at the emperor's horse carriage.
Lee knew of the emperor's schedule from a newspaper article, and managed to approach close to the procession disguised as a Kempeitai military policeman. However, the hand grenade missed, and exploded near the carriage of Imperial Household Minister Baron Ichiki Kitokuro instead, killing two horses. The would-be assassin was quickly apprehended by the Imperial Guard.
Lee was convicted on September 30, 1932 and was executed in Ichigaya Prison (市谷刑務所) on October 10 of the same year.
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