February 26th Incident

February 26 Incident
1st Lt. Yoshitada Niu and his company on February 26, 1936.
Date 26–29 February 1936 Location Tokyo, Japan Result Uprising suppressed. Loss of Kōdō-ha influence. Increase of military influence over government.
Belligerents
Righteous Army	Imperial Japanese Army  Imperial Japanese Navy
Commanders and leaders
Shirō Nonaka Kiyosada Kōda Yasuhide Kurihara Teruzō Andō Takaji Muranaka Asaichi Isobe Hisashi Kōno	Emperor Shōwa Prince Kan'in Kotohito Kōhei Kashii Yoshiyuki Kawashima Hajime Sugiyama
Strength
1,558 or 1,483	23,841

Emperor Shōwa
Prince Kan'in Kotohito
Kōhei Kashii
Yoshiyuki Kawashima

The February 26 Incident (二・二六事件, Niniroku Jiken^?) (also known as the 2-26 Incident) was an attempted coup d'état in Japan on 26 February 1936. It was organized by a group of young Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) officers with the goal of purging the government and military leadership of their factional rivals and ideological opponents.

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