- Tatenokai
The Tatenokai (楯の会) or Shield Society was a private
militia inJapan dedicated to traditional Japanese values and veneration of the Emperor. It was founded and led by the authorYukio Mishima .The Tatenokai was created in
October 5 1968 , recruiting its membership primarily from the staff of "Ronso Journal ", an obscure right-wingcollege newspaper . In an unusual move, the Tatenokai was granted the right to train with the nation's armed forces, theJapan Self-Defense Forces . InNovember 25 1970 five Tatenokai members briefly seized control of the Self-Defense Force's headquarters and attempted to rally the soldiers to stage a coup d'etat and restore imperial rule. When this failed, Mishima andMasakatsu Morita , the Tatenokai's main student leader, committed "seppuku " (ritual suicide).The rest of the members, around 90 people, were not informed about Mishima's plan at all. As per Mishima's own will, the Tatenokai disbanded in
November 25 1970 , the day Mishima and Morita killed themselves.The members who rose the action in
November 25 1970 *
Yukio Mishima , leader
*Hiroyasu Koga ,Kanagawa University
*Masayoshi Koga ,Kanagawa University
*Masakatsu Morita ,Waseda University
*Masahiro Ogawa ,Meiji Gakuin University
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