May 15 incident
The May 15 incident (五・一五事件, Goichigo jiken) was an attempted
Background
In 1932, in the "blood-pledge corps incident", Inoue's group only managed to kill the former
Incident
On May 15, 1932, the naval officers, aided by army cadets, and
Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi was shot by eleven young naval officers (most were just turning twenty years of age) in the prime minister's residence. Inukai's last words were roughly "If I could speak, you would understand" (話せば分かる, hanaseba wakaru) to which his killers replied "Dialogue is useless" (問答無用, mondō muyō).[1]
The original assassination plan had included killing the English film star
The insurgents also attacked the residence of
Aside from the murder of the prime minister, the attempted coup d'état came to nothing, and the rebellion as a whole proved a failure. The participants took a taxi to the police headquarters and surrendered themselves to the Kempeitai without a struggle.
Consequences
The eleven officers who murdered Prime Minister Inukai were
The punishment handed down by the court was extremely light, and there was little doubt in the Japanese press that the murderers of Prime Minister Inukai would be released in a couple of years, if not sooner. Failure to severely punish the plotters in the May 15 incident further eroded the
Popular culture
- The incident is discussed at length in Season 2, Episode 5 of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2004)[7]
References
- ^ a b Toland, The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936–1945
- S2CID 145519638.
- ^ Erotic Grotesque Nonsense:The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times, p.1 - Miriam Silverberg, 2006 Univ of California Press.
- ^ a b Toland, John (1970). The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936–1945. Random House. p. 11.
- ^ Spector, Eagle Against the Sun. pp. 36
- ^ Beasley, The Rise of Modern Japan
- ^ Complex, Valerie (21 March 2017). "Ghost in the Shell - A Primer for the Anime Series". IGN. Retrieved 18 April 2023.
Bibliography
- Beasley, W.G. (2000). The Rise of Modern Japan, 3rd Edition: Political, Economic, and Social Change since 1850. ISBN 0-312-23373-6.
- Borkwith, Mark (1989). Pacific Century: The Emergence of Modern Pacific Asia. ISBN 0-8133-3471-3.
- Oka, Yoshitake (1984). Five Political Leaders of Modern Japan: Ito Hirobumi, Okuma Shigenobu, Hara Takashi, Inukai Tsuyoshi, and Saionji Kimmochi. ISBN 0-86008-379-9.
- Sims, Richard (2001). Japanese Political History Since the Meiji Renovation 1868–2000. ISBN 0-312-23915-7.
- ISBN 0-394-74101-3.
- ISBN 0-8129-6858-1.
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