On this day, Dec. 27, in 1923, the son of a member of Japan’s legislature tried to assassinate then-Prince Regent Hirohito, the future emperor. Daisuke Namba fired a pistol at Hirohito’s carriage in downtown Tokyo. The bullet shattered a window but did not hit Hirohito.
The assassination attempt was largely motivated by Namba’s communist ideology.
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