On April 15, 2023, an attempt was made to assassinate Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during his visit to the Saikazaki Fishing Harbor in Wakayama city, in Wakayama Prefecture. As the PM was about to deliver a speech at the outdoor venue, a pipe IED was thrown at him. It landed next to him and was immediately kicked away by a security guard, where it initiated less than a minute later. The person who threw the IED, who was in the crowd, was wrestled to the ground by two civilians and security forces while attempting to light the fuse of another pipe IED. This assassination attempt is the second incident in the last year in which an improvised weapon was used to target a protected VIP at a public event, after the assassination of former prime minister Shinzo Abe in July 2022, using an improvised rifle.
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