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Sakai incident
1868Mar, 8

Sakai incident: Japanese samurai kill 11 French sailors in the port of Sakai, Osaka.

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. It is also known as the Senshu 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 (including the Kōbe incident and the Parkes incident) involving attacks on foreigners in Japan in 1868.

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