major incident; major happening; big scandal
resolution of an incident; solution to a (criminal) case
act of terror; terrorist attack
criminal nature; criminality
incident resulting in injury
robbery; robbery case; burglary
February 26 Incident (attempted military coup in Japan; 1936); February 1936 military revolt
incident involving the taking of hostages; hostage situation
fixer; dispute resolution specialist
sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway (March 20, 1995)
rare event; unexpected event
bribery case; bribery scandal; graft case
Marco Polo Bridge Incident (July 7, 1937)
Watergate scandal (1972-1975)
Watergate scandal (1972-1975)
scandal; bribery case; graft case
Namamugi Incident (August 1862); Kanagawa Incident; Richardson Affair
disgraceful incident; scandalous affair; untoward (deplorable) event
Battle of Khalkhin Gol (1939); Nomonhan Incident
Aum Shinrikyo incidents; string of incidents, crimes, etc. committed by the Aum Shinrikyo religious group in the 1980s
trouble caused by a slip of the tongue
Lockheed bribery scandal (uncovered in 1976)
Asama-Sanso incident (hostage crisis and police siege; February 1972)
Roe v. Wade (landmark United States Supreme Court decision disallowing many legal restrictions on abortion, 1973)
Tiananmen Square Massacre (1989); Tiananmen Square Incident
Nanking Incident (targeting of Nanking's foreign properties and residents by Kuomintang troops in March, 1927); Nanking Massacre (1937); Rape of Nanking
Iran-Contra affair (1984-1986; Irangate
Toranomon Incident (assassination attempt on Prince Regent Hirohito; December 27, 1923)
Moroccan Crisis (1905, 1911)
Osaka Incident (plot by Oi Kentaro and the Liberal Party to support a Korean uprising; 1885)
troubles brought on by what one has written; incident occasioned by a serious slip of the pen
Gulf of Tonkin incident (1964)
Bay of Pigs Invasion (1961)
My Lai Massacre (1968); Son My Massacre
litigation related to personal status (e.g. divorce actions)
murder case in which the victim is chopped into pieces; mutilation murder case
Piltdown hoax (1912 discovery of a fossilized ape-human missing-link skull, later revealed to be fraudulent)
September 11 attacks; 9/11
My Lai Massacre (1968); Son My Massacre
Kanemi rice oil disease incident (of 1968)
Matsumoto sarin gas attack (June 27-28, 1994)
1995 Okinawa rape incident; kidnapping and rape of a 12-year-old Japanese girl by three U.S. servicemen stationed in Okinawa
the Columbine High School massacre (April 20, 1999)
Akihabara massacre (June 8, 2008)
Akihabara massacre (June 8, 2008)
Bombardment of Yeonpyeong (November 23, 2010)
sinking of the South Korean navy ship Cheonan (allegedly by a North Korean torpedo; March 26, 2010)
Korean axe murder incident (killing of two US army officers in the DMZ on August 18, 1976); poplar tree incident
March 1st Movement (Korea); Sam-il Movement
Tungchow Mutiny (1937); Tongzhou Incident