the protests were held all over japan, with one of the biggest occurring in osaka, where over 7,000 were in attendance. on april 23, 1948, a crowd gathered outside of the osaka castle, where sixteen people were chosen to be representatives to negotiate with the governor about the closure of the ethnic schools, and to discuss the general attitudes towards koreans and korean education in osaka. when no agreements were reached, nearly 4,000 protestors forcefully entered the central office of the osaka prefecture government, destroying office equipment and cutting phone lines. the governor of osaka, with whom they had hoped to negotiate, escaped the office with the assistance of a police escort. over the next few days, the protests grew in number to between 20,000 and 40,000 protestors. these protests, which were mostly centralized at otemae park in osaka, were dispersed by the military. a korean teenager named kim t'ae-il, the only recorded casualty from the hanshin education incident, was killed when japanese police were shooting among the crowd of protestors.