四よん・一いち六ろく事じ件けん

also: しいちろくじけん

Meanings

noun

April 16 Incident

historical term

Historical term for the mass arrest of communists and anti-government activists in Japan on April 16, 1929.

四よん・一いち六ろく事じ件けんは、1929年ねんに日本にほんで共きょう産さん党とう員いんらが一いっ斉せい検けん挙きょされた事じ件けんです。
The April 16 Incident was a mass arrest of Communist Party members and others in Japan in 1929.

Kanji

四four
一one, one radical (no.1)
六six
事matter, thing, fact
件affair, case, matter

Related words

三さん・一いち五ご事じ件けん
The March 15 Incident of 1928, a similar mass arrest of communists and leftists that preceded the April 16 Incident.

Written forms

四・一六事件
- よんいちろくじけん
  Standard spelling with interpunct for clarity; the reading よんいちろくじけん is the most common.
- しいちろくじけん
四一六事件
- よんいちろくじけん
  Variant without interpunct; also read as しいちろくじけん.
- しいちろくじけん
  Alternate reading; less common than よんいちろくじけん.
しいちろくじけん

Etymology

Named after the date of the incident: April 16 (四・一六). The reading よんいちろく is the standard on'yomi for the numbers, while しいちろく is an alternate reading.