The Storming of the Military
On November 25, 1970, Yukio Mishima marched into the Tokyo military headquarters with the Shield Society. He was planning to give a half hour long speech on Japan’s government. However, Mishima was merely mocked and laughed at after seven minutes of his speech. Then he made a bold choice: to commit seppuku. Mishima stabbed himself in his stomach and spilled his guts and intestines out. Then, with the help of a “kaishakunin”, or second, he was beheaded. The Mishima incident is one of the most influential events in modern Japanese history.
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