What the records say
- When
- 30 Jan 1957
- Kind
- Murder
- Killed
- 1
- Coordinates
- 37.41° N, 161.29° W
- Description
- 1957 killing of a Japanese civilian by an American soldier
Placed at the middle of the 2 countries Wikidata lists.
Girard incident
1957 killing of a Japanese civilian by an American soldier
The Girard incident was the killing of Japanese civilian Naka Sakai by United States Army soldier William S. Girard in Soma, Gunma Prefecture, on January 30, 1957. Sakai, a housewife who was collecting spent shell casings at a military base to sell for scrap, was killed when Girard shot an empty grenade cartridge at her, apparently for his own amusement.
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2 sources record it
- Wikidata: shootings and murdersWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “群馬県相馬ヶ原射撃場で薬莢拾いの女性が米兵に射殺される事件発生（ジラード事件）。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page