Talk:Ōtsu incident

Tsuda's Motivation in this?
The article fails to say anything about what Tsuda hoped to achieve with his attack. Please add if you know this. -- 77.179.192.144 16:39, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Tsuda's motivation has always been the subject of much speculation. The most common explanation in western sources is that he was either an ultranationalist who hoped to provoke a war with Russia, or was simply a foreigner-hating xenophobe in the same mould as certain samurai who attacked foreigners in the late Edo/early Meiji period. Most Japanese sources prefer the explanation that he was simply "deranged". It should be noted that Tsuda was a veteran of the Satsuma Rebellion, and had been decorated for bravery in combat. Around the time of the Otsu Scandal, a popular rumor was being spread around Japan that Saigo Takamori had not died in the Satsuma Rebellion, but had escaped to Russia, where he was being sheltered by the Tsar, and that he would return with Russian backing at the head of a rebel force against the Japanese government. --MChew 07:40, 14 March 2007 (UTC)


 * I read that Tsuda, as a Shinto believer, was upset that a Christian was being allowed to visit Japan's holy sites, he considered it an insult. Despite the ambiguity of the motivation, the article should still say at least something about it. It could list the most commonly accepted theories perhaps.Edrigu (talk) 05:28, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

Contradictory Data
The article states Prince Arisugawa Takahito met the Tsarevich Nicholas's delegation in 1891. But the link to Takahito states he died in 1886....Either the dates are wrong or it was another Japanese nobleman who met Nicholas.... Engr105th 14:29, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
 * After some research, I think the right guy is Taruhito, Takahito's sons. At least he was not dead at the time :)Baltaci (talk) 02:32, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

This article states "Relics from the Otsu Scandal provided enough blood stains to make a positive identification possible." However, the article about Czar Nicholas II states the opposite ("Relics from the Ōtsu Scandal (a failed assassination attempt on Tsarevich Nicholas (future Nicholas II) in Japan) failed to provide sufficient evidence due to contamination") —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.46.248.204 (talk) 23:47, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Section in article
"...however, later historians have often speculated on how the incident (which left the Tsesarevich Nicholas permanently scarred), may have later influenced his opinion of Japan and the Japanese, and how this may have influenced his decisions in the process up to and during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905." This quote is rather a loud statement, I personally speculate this as well but is there any reliable and valid sources which can support this statement. Because you cannot just make such a statement about one's state of mind and thought.Migboy123 (talk) 08:35, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

Later events
The DNA matching in the second listed event (1993) should actually read that the DNA sampling done at the time was inconclusive. In the meantime DNA sampling (whole) has come a long way, and may be retried, instead of sampling so called DNA markers, sampling whole DNA instead, where even fragments can be used to recompile the whole DNA. This will have much greater depth and insight. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.238.45.149 (talk) 21:17, 23 November 2023 (UTC)