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[edit] 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)