Shimanaka incident
Right-wing terrorist attack in Japan, 1961 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Shimanaka incident (嶋中事件, Shimanaka jiken), also known as the Furyū mutan incident (風流夢譚事件, Furyū mutan jiken), was a right-wing terrorist attack which took place in Japan on 1 February 1961, as well as the resulting nationwide debate that surrounded it. After Japanese author Shichirō Fukazawa published a short story in the magazine Chūō Kōron which featured a dream sequence depicting the beheading of the Emperor and his family with a guillotine, a 17-year-old rightist named Kazutaka Komori broke into the home of Chūō Kōron president Hōji Shimanaka, murdering his maid and severely wounding his wife.
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Location | Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan |
Date | February 1, 1961; 63 years ago (1961-02-01) Approximately 9:15 p.m. (JST) |
Target | Hōji Shimanaka, president of Chūō Kōron magazine |
Attack type | Assassination attempt by stabbing |
Weapon | Knife |
Deaths | 1 (Shimanaka's housekeeper) |
Injured | 1 (Shimanaka's wife) |
Perpetrator | Kazutaka Komori |
Motive | Punishment of Shimanaka because his magazine had published a short story depicting the beheading of the Emperor |
Convictions | Murder |
Sentence | 15 years in prison |
The Shimanaka Incident played an important role in establishing so-called "Chrysanthemum taboo" in postwar Japan, whereby writers and the mass media would practice self-censorship and refrain from literary or artistic depictions of the Emperor or Imperial Family members.[1][2]