Attempted assassination of Fumio Kishida
2023 attack on the Japanese Prime Minister / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On 15 April 2023, a pipe bomb exploded near Fumio Kishida, the 101st Prime Minister of Japan, who came to the fishing port of Saikazaki, Wakayama, Wakayama Prefecture, in the Kansai region to give a campaign stump speech for the 2023 Japan by-elections.
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Native name | 岸田首相襲撃事件 (Prime Minister Kishida attack incident)[1] 首相演説会場爆発物事件 (Prime Minister's speech venue bomb incident) |
Location | Saikazaki fishing port, Saikazaki, Wakayama, Kansai region, Japan |
Coordinates | 34°11′20.1″N 135°08′41.4″E |
Date | 15 April 2023; 12 months ago (2023-04-15) c. 12:30 pm (JST, UTC+9) |
Target | Fumio Kishida |
Attack type | Explosion by pipe bomb projectile |
Weapons | Pipe bomb (30 cm) |
Deaths | 0 |
Injured | 2 |
Accused | Ryūji Kimura (Japanese: 木村 隆二) |
Just before Kishida was to give a stump speech, a man threw a pipe bomb. The man who threw the object was captured by local fishermen and the police. Kishida was not injured, because he was evacuated at the moment the pipe bomb was thrown. Fifty seconds after the bomb was thrown, it exploded, injuring two people.
The suspect, 24-year-old Ryūji Kimura (Japanese: 木村 隆二), was dissatisfied with the judiciary system over suffrage and demand deposit and asked lawyer Kenji Utsunomiya to represent him.