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Mishima incident

1970 CE · Japan, Asia · War

Mishima incident
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The Mishima incident occurred on November 25, 1970, when the Japanese author Yukio Mishima committed seppuku after calling on the Japan Self-Defense Forces to stage a coup d'état to abolish Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution and appealing to his own ideas and beliefs about reconstructing true national autonomy.

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