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The Kyūjō incident (宮城事件, Kyūjō Jiken) was an attempted military coup d'état in the Empire of Japan at the end of the Second World War. It happened on the night of 14–15 August 1945, just before the announcement of Japan's surrender to the Allies .
The newly formed Ishikawa Prefecture came to be regarded with caution by the national government following the Kioizaka Incident [] in 1878, in which 6 shizoku (士族), dissatisfied by the Meiji government's "maladministration, suppression of civil rights, and misuse of government property", assassinated Japanese statesman Ōkubo Toshimichi. [6]
Ōkubo Toshimichi as a young samurai. Ōkubo was born on 26 September 1830 in Kagoshima, Satsuma Province (present-day Kagoshima Prefecture) to Ōkubo Juemon (also known as Toshio and Shirō), [4] a low-ranking retainer of Shimazu Nariakira, the daimyō of the Satsuma Domain, later given a minor official position, and his wife Minayoshi Fuku, daughter of a physician. [5]
Kioichō Incident/Kioizaka Incident/Assassination of Ōkubo Toshimichi/Death of Ōkubo Toshimichi: gunkanmaki: gunkanmaki (now redirects to Sushi#Types) ...
The February 26 incident (二・二六事件, Ni Ni-Roku Jiken, also known as the 2–26 incident) was an attempted coup d'état in the Empire of Japan on 26 February 1936. It was organized by a group of young Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) officers with the goal of purging the government and military leadership of their factional rivals and ideological opponents.
District Superintendent DesMontes Stewart told local radio station KGAF about the incident in an interview partially shared on Facebook. “There was no active bullying report filed with GISD.
The commemorative plaque standing at the former site of the Ikedaya Inn. The Ikedaya incident (池田屋事件, Ikedaya jiken), also known as the Ikedaya affair or Ikedaya riot, was an armed encounter between the shishi which included masterless samurai formally employed by the Chōshū, Tosa and Higo domains (), and the Shinsengumi, the Bakufu's special police force in Kyoto on July 8, 1864 ...
A man whose wife was on the American Airlines plane that collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter in Washington, D.C. has revealed the final text he received from her before the crash.. On ...