Akizuki rebellion | |||||||
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Part of the Shizoku rebellions of the Meiji period | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Kanjōtai
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Strength | |||||||
14th Infantry Regiment 1st & 3rd Police Battalion Companies | 870 Akizuki rebels | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
5+ dead (at least 2 soldiers, 2 civilians, 1 policeman) |
24 dead (killed and suicide) 2 executed 150 arrested |
The Akizuki rebellion (秋月の乱, Akizuki no ran) was an uprising against the Meiji government of Japan that occurred in Akizuki from 27 October 1876 to 24 November 1876.
Former samurai of the Akizuki Domain, opposed to the Westernization of Japan and loss of their class privileges after the Meiji Restoration, launched an uprising inspired by the failed Shinpūren rebellion three days earlier. The Akizuki rebels attacked local police before being suppressed by the Imperial Japanese Army, and the leaders of the rebellion committed seppuku or were executed.
The Akizuki rebellion was one of a number of "shizoku uprisings" which took place in Kyūshū and western Honshu during the early Meiji period.
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