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Shimanaka incident
Right-wing terrorist attack in Japan, 1961
Shimanaka incident
The Shimanaka incident (嶋中事件, Shimanaka jiken), also known as the Furyū mutan incident (風流夢譚事件, Furyū mutan jiken), was a right-wing terrorist attack which took place in Japan on 1 February 1961, as well as the resulting nationwide debate that surrounded it. After Japanese author Shichirō Fukazawa published a short story in the magazine Chūō Kōron which featured a dream sequence depicting the beheading of the Emperor and his family with a guillotine, a 17-year-old rightist named Kazutaka Komori broke into the home of Chūō Kōron president Hōji Shimanaka, murdering his maid and severely wounding his wife. The Shimanaka Incident played an important role in establishing the so-called "Chrysanthemum taboo" in postwar Japan, whereby writers and the mass media would practice self-censorship and refrain from literary or artistic depictions of the Emperor or Imperial Family members.
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