BIDMC Disaster Medicine Fellowship, Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MassachusettsUSA.
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MassachusettsUSA.
Prehosp Disaster Med. 2023 Apr;38(2):232-236. doi: 10.1017/S1049023X23000109. Epub 2023 Jan 30.
This study aims to analyze and describe terrorism-related attacks in East Asia from 1970 through 2020.
East Asia consists of South Korea, North Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Japan, Taiwan, and Macao. According to the Global Terrorism Index (GTI) 2022, the impact of terrorism in East Asia is very low. However, the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on July 8, 2022 demonstrates that East Asia is not safe from terrorist attacks. This descriptive analysis of terrorist attacks in East Asia will help first responders, Emergency Medical Services (EMS), hospital-based medical providers, and policymakers establish a more refined hazard vulnerability assessment (HVA) framework and develop a Counter-Terrorism Medicine (CTM) mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery plan.
This is a descriptive observational study drawing data from the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) from January 1, 1970 through December 31, 2020. Epidemiology outcomes included primary weapon type, primary target type, the country where the incident occurred, and the number of total deaths and injured collected. Data from 2021 were not yet available at the time of this study. Results were exported into an Excel spreadsheet (Microsoft Corp.; Redmond, Washington USA) for analysis.
There were 779 terrorism-related events in East Asia from 1970 through 2020. In total, the attacks resulted in 1,123 deaths and 9,061 persons injured. The greatest number of attacks (371; 47.63%) occurred in Japan and the second most occurred in China (268; 34.4%). Explosives were the most used primary weapon type (308; 39.54%) in the region, followed by incendiary devices (260; 33.38%). Terrorist attacks drastically diminished from their peak of 92 in 1990, but there were additional peaks of 88 in 1996, 18 in 2000, 20 in 2008, and 36 attacks in 2014.
A total of 779 terrorist attacks occurred from 1970 through 2020 in East Asia, resulting in 1,123 deaths and 9,061 injuries. Of those, 82.03% attacks occurred in Japan and China. Terrorist attacks drastically diminished since their peak in 1996, but there is an overall uptrend in attacks since 1999.
本研究旨在分析和描述 1970 年至 2020 年间东亚地区与恐怖主义相关的袭击事件。
东亚地区包括韩国、朝鲜、新加坡、中国香港、日本、中国台湾和中国澳门。根据 2022 年全球恐怖主义指数（GTI），东亚地区受恐怖主义的影响非常低。然而，2022 年 7 月 8 日日本前首相安倍晋三遇刺表明，东亚地区也无法免受恐怖袭击的威胁。对东亚地区恐怖袭击事件的这种描述性分析将有助于急救人员、紧急医疗服务（EMS）、医院医疗服务提供者和政策制定者建立更精细的灾害脆弱性评估（HVA）框架，并制定反恐医学（CTM）缓解、准备、响应和恢复计划。
这是一项描述性观察研究，从 1970 年 1 月 1 日至 2020 年 12 月 31 日期间从全球恐怖主义数据库（GTD）中提取数据。流行病学结果包括主要武器类型、主要目标类型、事件发生的国家以及总死亡人数和受伤人数。本研究进行时，2021 年的数据尚未公布。结果被导出到 Microsoft Corp. 的 Excel 电子表格中（美国华盛顿州雷德蒙德）进行分析。
1970 年至 2020 年期间，东亚地区共发生 779 起与恐怖主义相关的事件。这些袭击事件共造成 1123 人死亡，9061 人受伤。袭击次数最多的是日本（371 次；47.63%），其次是中国（268 次；34.4%）。该地区使用最多的主要武器类型是爆炸物（308 次；39.54%），其次是燃烧装置（260 次；33.38%）。恐怖袭击事件从 1990 年的 92 次高峰急剧减少，但在 1996 年、2000 年、2008 年分别出现了 88 次、18 次和 36 次的高峰。
1970 年至 2020 年期间，东亚地区共发生 779 起恐怖袭击事件，造成 1123 人死亡，9061 人受伤。其中，82.03%的袭击发生在日本和中国。自 1996 年达到高峰以来，恐怖袭击事件急剧减少，但自 1999 年以来，袭击事件呈总体上升趋势。
