Hongkou Park Incident
1932 CE.
Shown on the map at 31.275°, 121.479°.
The Hongkou Park Incident was a bombing attack on military and colonial personnel of the Empire of Japan at 11:40 am on April 29, 1932. It occurred at Hongkou Park (now "Lu Xun Park"), Shanghai, Republic of China, during a ceremony that honored the birthday of the Emperor of Japan, Hirohito. The attack was planned and conducted by the Korean Patriotic Organization, a militant arm of the Korean Provisional Government (KPG). The KPG was a government in exile for Korea formed in Shanghai in 1919 after the Japanese colonized Korea in 1910. It was motivated by advocacy for the independence of Korea from the Empire of Japan. The attacker, Yun Bong-gil, was given two homemade bombs for the attack. He set off the first bomb on the main stage of a rally, which killed Japanese General Yoshinori Shirakawa and head of the Japanese Residents' Association of Shanghai Kawabata Teiji and blew a hole in the stage. A number of other Japanese people were wounded, with injuries ranging from severe to minor. Minister to China Mamoru Shigemitsu and Lieutenant General Kenkichi Ueda each lost a leg, and Admiral Kichisaburō Nomura lost an eye. A reporter and sailor also received minor injuries.
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