Amakasu Incident

Amakasu Incident
Part of the Kantō Massacre
A clip from the Mainichi Shimbun, on the death of Itō Noe and Ōsugi Sakae.
Date16 September 1923 (1923-09-16)
Attack type
Extrajudicial killing
Victims
PerpetratorsKempeitai, led by Masahiko Amakasu

The Amakasu Incident (甘粕事件, Amakasu Jiken) was the murder of two prominent Japanese anarchists and their young nephew by military police, led by Lieutenant Amakasu Masahiko, in September 1923. The victims were Ōsugi Sakae, an informal leader of the Japanese anarchist movement, together with the anarcha-feminist Itō Noe (his lover), and Ōsugi's six-year-old nephew.[1]

  1. ^ Crump, John (1993). Hatta Shūzō and Pure Anarchism in Interwar Japan. London: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 43. doi:10.1007/978-1-349-23038-9. ISBN 978-1-349-23040-2.