Sakai incident

Sakai incident 堺事件
Part of Bakumatsu period
Sakai incident, Japan. Le Monde Illustré, 1868
Date March 8–18, 1868 Location Sakai, Izumi Province, Japan 34°34′53″N 135°28′54″E / 34.58139°N 135.48167°E / 34.58139; 135.48167 Result Japanese reparations to France
Belligerents
France	Empire of Japan
Casualties and losses
11 dead	11 executed
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The Sakai incident (堺事件, Sakai Jiken) was a diplomatic incident that occurred on March 8, 1868, in Bakumatsu period Japan involving the deaths of eleven French sailors from the French corvette Dupleix in the port of Sakai near Osaka, Japan.^[1] It is also known as the Senshū Sakai incident (泉州堺事件) or the Myōkoku-ji incident (妙国寺事件), and was one of three major diplomatic incidents involving attacks on foreigners in Japan in 1868, the others being the Kobe Incident and the attempted assassination of Harry Parkes.