The Sinhanch'on Incident (Korean: 신한촌사건; Hanja: 新韓村事件) or the April Disaster (4월참변) was a massacre of Korean civilians by Japanese soldiers in the Korean enclave Sinhanch'on, Vladivostok, Far Eastern Republic beginning on April 4, 1920. The massacre lasted for several days.[1][2] It is not known how many were killed,[1] although one estimate puts the number at several hundred.[3]