MARINO FUNAHASHI

The Mishima Incident occurred on November 25, 1970, where 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. The incident is sometimes called the Tatenokai Incident after the name of the private militia, Tatenokai, of which Mishima was the captain, as members of that organization also participated in the incident.