Niihau Incident

(noun)

An incident that occurred on December 7, 1941, when Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service pilot Shigenori Nishikaichi crash-landed his Zero on the Hawaiian island of Niʻihau after participating in the attack on Pearl Harbor. He was killed in a struggle with people on the island but initially received assistance from three local residents.

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Examples of Niihau Incident in the following topics:

  • Internment of Japanese Americans

    • Civilian and military officials had concerns about the loyalty of the ethnic Japanese after the Niihau Incident which immediately followed the attack on Pearl Harbor, when a civilian Japanese national and two Hawaiian-born ethnic Japanese on the island of Ni'ihau violently freed a downed and captured Japanese naval airman, attacking their fellow Ni'ihau islanders in the process.

  • Japanese Incursions into China

    • Thus, in 1931, Japan invaded Manchuria, in what is known as the Mukden Incident (or the Manchurian Incident).
    • Before 1937, China and Japan fought in small, localized engagements, so-called "incidents," such as the Mukden Incident.
    • The last of these incidents was the Marco Polo Bridge Incident of 1937, which marked the beginning of total war between the two countries.
    • Japan's government was initially reluctant to escalate the conflict into full scale war after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, being content with the victories achieved.
    • This WWII-era documentary describes the Japanese invasions into China, including the Mukden Incident and the Rape of Nanking.

  • Women and Slavery

    • Harriet Jacobs documented her experience with sexual abuse in The Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.

  • The Sand-Lot Incident

  • Commitment to Vietnam

    • The Gulf of Tonkin Incident proved an escalating factor of the war and justification of continued American presence in Vietnam.
    • Robert McNamarra recounts the confusion and uncertainty surrounding the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, ultimately reporting that "It didn't happen."

  • The Boston Massacre and Military Occupation

    • The Boston Massacre, called The Incident on King Street by the British, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five colonial civilian men.

  • Police

    • Incidents such as the 1965 Watts Riots and the videotaped 1991 beating by of Rodney King by Los Angeles Police officers and the riot following their acquittal, have been suggested by some as evidence that U.S. police are dangerously lacking in appropriate controls.
    • Incidents such as the 1965 Watts Riots and the videotaped 1991 beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles Police officers and the riot following their acquittal have been suggested by some as evidence that U.S. police are dangerously lacking in appropriate controls.

  • Torque on a Current Loop: Rectangular and General

    • Incidentally, those forces are vertical and thus parallel to the shaft.

  • Magnetic Force Between Two Parallel Conductors

    • Incidentally, this value is the basis of the operational definition of the ampere.

  • Defining the Income Statement

    • A loss is a decrease in net assets from a similar type of incidental event.