In the Japanese military circles of the 1930s, there were mainly two factions, one faction was the Imperial Taoist faction headed by the general Sadao Araki, who, although he was a general, was mainly a young fascist officer born civilian. The other faction is the ruling faction, and the personnel are generally from aristocratic origins, such as Okamura Ninji, Tojo Hideki, etc. Tojo Hideki's father, who is a lieutenant general, belongs to the nobility, and he belongs to the children of high-ranking cadres. The general direction advocated by the two factions is actually the same, that is, the establishment of a fascist dictatorship, but the means are different, and the imperialists are more radical in comparison, and all those who obstruct are killed, even those who rule.
In 1930, Prime Minister Hamaguchi was stabbed in a serious wound at the Tokyo railway station and died a few months later, as a young member of an extremist gang. Thus began a two-year period of what Japanese politicians called "brainless patriotism." During this period, it was mainly a group of "patriotic thieves" right-wing fanatics who tried to purify Japan by assassinating the leader. It was because Hamaguchi accepted the terms of the London Naval Disarmament Conference that the ratio of Japanese and American capital ships was maintained at 3:5, which was originally maintained at 7:10, and became a "traitor" in the mouth of the Japanese fascist "patriotic thief". In 1932, the members of the Japanese Blood Compact Group assassinated Junnosuke Inoue, who was resolutely opposed to military expansion, and in the same year, the president of the Mitsui Foundation, Tanato, was also assassinated, and the Japanese police arrested this fascist gang, but the Japanese public believed that these assassins were like ancient samurai, they sacrificed their lives for the welfare of Japan, and after the arrest of this fascist gang, the court wanted to try the members of this assassination group, the Blood Covenant. A small group of nine army and navy officers, supported by right-wing people, attempted a military coup that, although unsuccessful, assassinated Prime Minister Inuyasha, a friend of Sun Yat-sen who had expressed a different view of Japan's invasion of northeast China. Once again, public sympathy was expressed for the assassinations, and the trials of the rebels became a stage for ultra-nationalist propaganda. The leader of the Imperial Taoist faction, Araki Sadao, called them "unstoppable patriots", 110,000 people across the country petitioned for them, many people wrote blood letters, these petitioners poured into the court like a tide, 9 murderers voluntarily stood in the defendant's seat and cut off their little fingers to show sincerity, in such a situation, which judge dared to try them? So these people were first imprisoned, then given a reduced sentence, and then they wore steel helmets and rifles to run around the playground as punishment, and after the run, someone helped him take the helmet, someone helped him carry the gun, and carried them in an armed parade.
Three prime ministers, Akira Hara, Yuki Hamaguchi, Inuyasha, and a number of high-ranking officials were assassinated, but the murderers went unpunished and were not effectively punished. This gang is lawless, coupled with the vigorous suppression of public opinion by the fascists of the military department, the prohibition of all speech harmful to domestic politics, the strengthening of subversive organizational control, the strengthening of public unity, and the enhancement of national mobilization; this is also the proposal made by Sadao Araki to the prime minister, and the Japanese government has set off a large-scale suppression of non-Japanese things.
Japan has even set up a special agency called the Thought Control Bureau to control thought. The military and police assisted in the special high school, a student control office was established in the ministry of education, culture, sports, and culture, liberal publications were banned, half of the contents of some books, magazines, and newspapers were deleted, those suspected of writing inflammatory articles were detained indefinitely, all those who supported liberal ideas lost their jobs, and ultra-nationalist thugs openly sought out dissidents in the streets and beat them directly. In this way, extreme patriotism prevailed in Japan.
The Imperial Diet passed a resolution saying: The Japanese Emperor and the state are one, and this flawless state system has lasted for a full 3,000 years, which shows that Japan wants to establish a fascist dictatorship headed by the emperor, in this case, in order to completely establish the fascist dictatorship, in the early morning of February 26, 1936, 1500 army soldiers led by Captain Kiyosada Kaeda launched a mutiny, Kaeda Kiyosada was only a lieutenant, and the remaining dozen officer positions involved in the coup were even lower. These soldiers occupied the Army Province, the Diet Building, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, the Prime Minister's Residence, and other places. A group of people broke into the home of the Tibetan Minister Takahashi Shikiyoshi and killed him, because Takahashi pointed out that the Sino-Japanese war had seriously depleted financial resources and opposed the war between Japan and the United States. When another group of people killed the Minister of the Interior, Saiteng, he was shot 47 times and beaten into a sieve; The Army Education Director General Tetsutaro Watanabe was killed, Prime Minister Keisuke Okada was lucky to escape because he was hiding in the bathhouse, his brother-in-law rushed outside to try to take cover, and was mistaken for the Prime Minister and was killed; the Emperor's attendant, Suzuki Kantaro, was also shot several times, lying on the ground groaning, and a fascist officer wanted to cut him off when he saw that he was not dead. At this time, Suzuki's wife pounced on him and said: He is going to die soon, and if there is no breath, leave him a whole corpse. This fascist young officer, who also felt that it made sense, said: I'm sorry Madame, I soiled your house. After saying that, he withdrew. Suzuki's wife saw that the mutinous officers were gone, so she quickly sent her husband to the hospital, and this old man was actually rescued, and he actually became the last prime minister of Japan before the defeat of the war.
These young fascist officers staged a coup d'état and also fooled the Japanese masses, saying: Our country is on the verge of war with Russia, China, Britain, the United States, and unless we rise up now and eliminate those who stand in the way of real reform, the emperor's prestige will be swept away. After the incident, the Emperor was furious because the Minister of War had called the rebels "rebels", and the Emperor ordered the suppression, at which point the ministers brought in tanks and prepared to suppress the rebels.
The process of repression was particularly simple, and two large balloons were raised by the military headquarters, on which it was written: His Majesty the Emperor declared that you were rebels, the soldiers scattered as soon as they saw them, and a dozen fascist officers went to the square in front of the palace to pull grenades and commit suicide, survived, were tried, and 17 of them were sentenced to death. Since then, the imperial Taoist faction in the Japanese army has been in a slump, and many people who originally belonged to the imperial daoist faction have switched to the ruling faction, such as Yamashita Bongwen, who is known as the Tiger of Malays. Although the coup was quelled, it had an impact, that is, no one in Japan dared to offend the Military Department anymore, although the cabinet established after the 226 Mutiny was still a civilian official in power, prime minister Hirota Hiroshi was a civilian official, but he restored the army and navy minister active military attaché system, that is, the army and navy minister must be served by the active army and navy admiral or lieutenant general, the army and navy minister must be recommended by the army department, if the military department is dissatisfied with the prime minister, the army department refuses to recommend the army and navy minister candidates, So Japan eventually entered the military fascist dictatorship.