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Tatenokai - private militia in Japan led by Yukio Mishima
 

The Tatenokai or Shield Society was a private militia in Japan led by the right-wing author Yukio Mishima. Mishima founded the Tatenokai in 1967, recruiting its membership primarily from the staff of Ronso Journal, an obscure right-wing college newspaper. In an unusual move, the Tatenokai was granted the right to train with the nation's armed forces, the Jieitai. In 1970, a group of Tatenokai briefly seized control of the Jieitai's headquarters and attempted to rally the soldiers to stage a coup d'etat and restore imperial rule. When this failed, Mishima and Masakatsu Morita, the Totenokai's main student leader, commited seppuku or ritual suicide.

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