The Fukuda Village Incident (Japanese: 福田村事件, also Fukudamura Incident) was a mass murder committed as part of the larger Kantō Massacre in Fukuda Village [jp] (now in Noda), Chiba Prefecture, Empire of Japan on September 6, 1923.
Immediately after the destructive Great Kantō Earthquake, rumors emerged that ethnic Koreans were planning to commit crimes across Japan.
[1] These rumors were, in part, supported by a cable sent under the name of Fumio Gotō, then director general of the Police Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of the Interior.
Koreans who were positively identified were often killed, although victims also included Chinese and misidentified Japanese.
[3] Nine of them were killed after being mistakenly identified as Korean; among the dead were children and a pregnant woman, who were from the severely disadvantaged former burakumin caste.