Record of War/Facing up to History

[Elizabeth van Kampen]

Record of War/Facing up to History: Assassins hastened Japan's march to war

http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200709070077.html

When I read the above article this morning from the Asahi News Online, I realized how often wars have started through stupid incidents.

[caster51]

I dont know why Asahi is always wrong.

226 incident is not a terror....
they were believer of state Socialism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_26_Incident
after this result, The tousei-ha gained power oppositely in Japan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toseiha

after ww2 most terror was occured by left winger

[GodEmperorLeto]

Record of War/Facing up to History: Assassins hastened Japan's march to war
http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200709070077.html

Runaway Horses (http://www.amazon.com/Runaway-Horses-Yukio-Mishima/dp/0679722408/ref=pd_bbs_2/105-6544039-9516428?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189192625&sr=8-2)
Mishima Yukio dramatizes this tumultuous era in the second book of his Sea of Fertility series.

When I read the above article this morning from the Asahi News Online, I realized how often wars have started through stupid incidents.

Worse.

War of Jenkin's Ear (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Jenkins%27_Ear).

Defenestrations of Prague (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestration_of_prague). My personal favorite prelude to war.

after ww2 most terror was occured by left winger
I wouldn't consider it terrorism, necessarily, myself. It was politically motivated and it had specific political targets. Terrorism is usually an attack on civilian populations with no strategic benefit beyond sowing fear.

In addition, this is dealing with incidents during the years leading up to the Pacific War, and those were mostly at the hands of ultra-nationalist right-wingers and militarists.