Editing Hirohito (section)

====Earthquake and assassination attempt====
[[File:Emperor Hirohito and empress Kojun of japan.JPG|thumb|upright=0.8|Prince Hirohito and his wife, Princess Nagako, in 1924]]
The [[Great Kantō earthquake]] devastated Tokyo on 1 September 1923, killing some 100,000 people and leveling vast areas. The city could be rebuilt drawing on the then massive timber reserves of Taiwan. In the aftermath of the tragical disaster, the military authorities saw an opportunity to annihilate the communist movement in Japan. During the [[Kantō Massacre]] an estimated 6000 people, mainly ethnic Koreans, were annihilated. The backlash culminated in an assassination attempt by [[Daisuke Namba]] on the Prince Regent on 27 December 1923 in the so-called [[Toranomon incident]], but the attempt failed.<ref>{{cite web |date=13 March 2018 |title=The Long and Eventful Reign of Hirohito |url=https://pearlharbor.org/the-long-and-eventful-reign-of-hirohito/ |access-date=24 November 2022 |website=Pearl Harbor}}</ref><ref name="takaoclub_hirohito"/> During interrogation, the failed assassin claimed to be a [[Japanese Communist Party|communist]] and was executed.<ref>{{cite web |last=Hernon |first=Matthew |date=15 May 2021 |title=TW's List of 7: Notorious Assassination Plots in Japan |url=https://www.tokyoweekender.com/2021/05/assassination-plots-japan/ |access-date=24 November 2022 |website=Tokyo Weekender}}{{better source needed|date=November 2024}}</ref>