事じ件けん
Meanings
Noun
1. event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble; scandal
The culprit was there when the incident occurred.
Kanji used
occurence
case
Pitch accent
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Top 800
Composed of
individual concrete phenomenon (as opposed to a general principle)
matter; affair; counter for (received) emails, text messages, voicemail messages, etc.; counter for accounts (on a website, email service, etc.)
Used in vocabulary (97 in total)
major incident; major happening; big scandal
kidnapping; kidnaping
resolution of an incident; solution to a (criminal) case
criminal nature; criminality
act of terror; terrorist attack
incident resulting in injury
robbery; robbery case; burglary
minor incident; sideshow
incident involving the taking of hostages; hostage situation
fixer; dispute resolution specialist
murder case in which the victim is chopped into pieces; mutilation murder case
sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway (March 20, 1995)
incident involving killing and wounding; attack resulting in casualties
rare event; unexpected event
bribery case; bribery scandal; graft case
High Treason Incident (socialist-anarchist plot to assassinate Emperor Meiji in 1910)
High Treason Incident (socialist-anarchist plot to assassinate Emperor Meiji in 1910)
incident (e.g. crime) involving a minor (between the ages of 14 and 19)
lawsuit; (legal) case
Marco Polo Bridge Incident (July 7, 1937)
Watergate scandal (1972-1975)
Namamugi Incident (August 1862); Kanagawa Incident; Richardson Affair
scandal; bribery case; graft case
Battle of Khalkhin Gol (1939); Nomonhan Incident
Aum Shinrikyo incidents (including the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway)
scandal; disgraceful incident; scandalous affair; untoward event
Aum Shinrikyo incidents; string of incidents, crimes, etc. committed by the Aum Shinrikyo religious group in the 1980s and 1990s, culminating in the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin gas attack
trouble caused by a slip of the tongue
Lockheed bribery scandal (uncovered in 1976)
Marco Polo Bridge Incident (July 7, 1937)
Liutiaohu Incident (1931 railway bombing triggering the Manchurian Incident)
Red Flag Incident (suppression and arrest of participants of anarcho-communist rally in Tokyo; June 22, 1908)
Asama-Sanso incident (hostage crisis and police siege; February 1972)
Osaka Incident (plot by Oi Kentaro and the Liberal Party to support a Korean uprising; 1885)
Moroccan Crisis (1905, 1911)
Xi'an Incident (involving the arrest and confinement of Chiang Kai-shek; December 1936)
Tsuyama massacre (1938; revenge spree killing of 30 people)
Tiananmen Square Massacre (1989); Tiananmen Square Incident
Toranomon Incident (assassination attempt on Prince Regent Hirohito; December 27, 1923)
Nanking Incident (targeting of Nanking's foreign properties and residents by Kuomintang troops in March, 1927); Nanking Massacre (1937); Rape of Nanking
February 26 Incident (attempted military coup in Japan; 1936); February 1936 military revolt
Siemens scandal (1914)
hijacking of Japan Air Lines Flight 472 (1977)
Gulf of Tonkin incident (1964)
Bay of Pigs Invasion (1961)
My Lai Massacre (1968); Son My Massacre
troubles brought on by what one has written; incident occasioned by a serious slip of the pen
February 26 Incident (attempted military coup in Japan; 1936); February 1936 military revolt
Liutiaohu Incident (1931 railway bombing triggering the Manchurian Incident)
party to the case; parties concerned
May 15 incident (1932 assassination of Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi by young naval officers, ending party-led government in Japan)
murder case in which the victim is chopped into pieces; mutilation murder case
Watergate scandal (1972-1975)
April 16 incident (arrests of communists and members of other anti-government groups; 1929)
April 16 incident (arrests of communists and members of other anti-government groups; 1929)
Iran-Contra affair (1984-1986); Irangate
Toranomon Incident (assassination attempt on Prince Regent Hirohito; December 27, 1923)
litigation related to personal status (e.g. divorce actions)
random attack; indiscriminate attack; random act of violence
My Lai Massacre (1968); Son My Massacre
Korean axe murder incident (killing of two US army officers in the DMZ on August 18, 1976); poplar tree incident
Piltdown hoax (1912 discovery of a fossilized ape-human missing-link skull, later revealed to be fraudulent)
Matsumoto sarin gas attack (June 27-28, 1994)
Tungchow Mutiny (1937); Tongzhou Incident
1995 Okinawa rape incident; kidnapping and rape of a 12-year-old Japanese girl by three US servicemen stationed in Okinawa
disappearance case; missing person case
March 1st Movement (Korea); Sam-il Movement
bizarre crime; grotesque incident; macabre case
Kanemi rice oil disease incident (of 1968)
sinking of the South Korean navy ship Cheonan (allegedly by a North Korean torpedo; March 26, 2010)
Bombardment of Yeonpyeong (November 23, 2010)
Examples (117 in total)
It was a strange affair.
The incident happened in winter, didn't it?
Two days had passed since the incident.