Namamugi Incident
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title:
Namamugi Incident
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The Namamugi incident, also known as the Kanagawa incident and Richardson affair, was a political crisis that occurred in the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan during the Bakumatsu on 14 September 1862. Charles Lennox Richardson, a British merchant, was killed by the armed retinue of Shimazu Hisamitsu, the regent of the Satsuma Domain, on a road in Namamugi near Kawasaki. Richardson's killing sparked outrage among Europeans for violating their extraterritoriality in Japan, while the Japanese argued Ri
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1862 political crisis in Tokugawa Japan due to the killing of a British merchant by the samurai
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namamugi_Incident
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2024-03-22T05:23:26Z
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