Attempted assassination of Fumio Kishida information
2023 attack on the Japanese Prime Minister
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Saikazaki bombing
Above: Saikazaki fishing port [ja] photographed from the opposite shore.（The structure in the center of the image is where Kishida was attacked. Photo taken November 18, 2018.） Below: Fumio Kishida gives a press conference the next day regarding the explosion incident.
15 April 2023; 12 months ago (2023-04-15) c. 12:30 pm (JST, UTC+9)
Target
Fumio Kishida
Attack type
Explosion by pipe bomb projectile
Weapons
Pipe bomb (30cm)
Deaths
0
Injured
2
Accused
Ryūji Kimura (Japanese: 木村 隆二)
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On 15 April 2023, a pipe bomb exploded near Fumio Kishida, the 101st Prime Minister of Japan, who came to the fishing port of Saikazaki, Wakayama, Wakayama Prefecture, in the Kansai region to give a campaign stump speech for the 2023 Japan by-elections.
Just before Kishida was to give a stump speech, a man threw a pipe bomb. The man who threw the object was captured by local fishermen and the police. Kishida was not injured, because he was evacuated at the moment the pipe bomb was thrown. Fifty seconds after the bomb was thrown, it exploded, injuring two people.
The suspect, 24-year-old Ryūji Kimura (Japanese: 木村 隆二), was dissatisfied with the judiciary system over suffrage and demand deposit and asked lawyer Kenji Utsunomiya to represent him.
^Nagato, Masako (2023-04-19). 岸田首相襲撃事件 民主主義攻撃と各紙非難 「選挙運動貫徹を」と産経 [Media condemns attack on Prime Minister Kishida, calling it an attack on democracy, and Sankei says "Be thorough in your campaign"]. Sankei Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-04-23.
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