1936: Saburo Aizawa, incidentally

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[CheshireTheCat]

Lieutenant Colonel Saburo Aizawa was shot on this date in 1936. The Aizawa Incident — an assassination — emerged from the conflict between the Kodoha (“Imperial Way”) and Toseiha (“Control”) factions of the Imperial Japanese Army.

Both these philosophies were authoritarian, militaristic, and aggressively imperialist.

However, Kodoha officers — disproportionately younger junior officers — were more radically right-wing. Their leading light, General Sadao Araki, who had been War Minister in the early 1930s, espoused a philosophy that “linked the Emperor, the people, land, and morality as one indivisible entity, and which emphasized State Shintoism.”

Toseiha is described as the more moderate faction which in practice meant that they were a bit less totalizing and a bit more institutionally accommodating: in a word, it was just the mainline outlook of the army brass. According to Leonard Humphreys, Toseiha “was not really a faction … it really consisted only of officers who opposed the Kodoha.”*...

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

However, Kodoha officers — disproportionately younger junior officers — were more radically right-wing.

So they were in favor of free markets, small government, freedom of speech, religion and movement, equality before the law and allowing people to live their lives as they pleased as long as they did it peacefully?

No?

Ok so they were not "right-wing".

Got it.

[chajin]

However, Kodoha officers — disproportionately younger junior officers — were more radically right-wing...“linked the Emperor, the people, land, and morality as one indivisible entity, and which emphasized State Shintoism.”

This is not right-wing. It's closer to left-wing, with the major difference being that it is not at all Marxist. Otherwise, the difference between Mussolini running the Italian Empire and Showa (Hirohito) running the Japanese Empire is practically no difference, except that the Japanese emperor was content to work in the shadows, and Benito* wanted the limelight all the time. But calling Kodoha "right wing" creates the ignorant illusion that "MAGA extremists" want to create an American Empire with Trump as the Emperor, rather than what we want to do, which is not just to make America great again, but to make America America again.

*Not to be confused with bonito, a mini-tuna which in Japan is the basis for dried flakes used to make fish broth for numerous dishes. On the other hand, Benito was a bit of a flake, so maybe he was a kind of bonito.

[chajin]

Beat me by 90 seconds, but only because I went off on the bonito tangent. A little Japanese mask in return 👺

[NorthMountain]

radically right-wing

That means they believed in small, strictly controlled government with few powers, and maximum liberty for the People.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Bonito is a good reason to go off on a tangent. :)

[Theophilus]

Good points.

However, the political terms "Left and Right" were first used in the 18th century, during the French Revolution, referencing the seating arrangement of the French parliament. No part of the French Revolution was Christian or Conservative. It was all statist and man/pagan centered. We should not appreciate being appropriated into their term and system of "right-wing". We should not "react" to the children of Satan, we should react to the commandments of our Lord: Jesus Christ.

Psalm 24:1
The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein