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TIL of the Mishima incident. On 11/25/1970, Japanese writer Yukio Mishima and his militia entered a military base in Tokyo, took its commandant hostage, and tried to get the Japan Self-Defense Forces to restore national defense and the emperor divinity. After this failed, he committed seppuku.

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