Talk:February 26 incident/Archive 1

Double article
It seems that the current statee of this article is that there are two sections on the the same subject. Surely, they can be merged into a unified account. -- Fplay 08:06, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Possible plagiarism?
This wording in this article seems substantially the same as the same article in Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia (Kodansha, 1993). There are a few additions and there is some reorganisation of text but in my opinion, there are clear similarities. Needs to be checked! Tez123 12:34, 27 April 2007 (UTC)tez123Tez123 12:34, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Victims "active participants"?
While being assassinated is also some sort of "participation", it is hardly active. Thus, I removed Takahashi Korekiyo, Saito Makoto and Jotaro Watanabe from the list of "active participants". Also removed were Okada Keisuke, Kantaro Suzuki, Makino Nobuaki and Saionji Kimmochi, who were not on the rebels' side and are mentioned as having been attacked. If any of them were active in putting down the insurrection, they might be re-added, but then their role should be made clear. The remainder of the "participants" list also needs some attention, but these were the most extreme examples. --Huon 16:18, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Romanisation of Japanese names
The romanisation of the names in this article is inconsistent and haphazard. Some of them are Name-Family Name but others are Family Name-Name. I would edit it myself but am rushing a few theses; if someone sees this, please help edit, or tag this article (because admittedly I am not clear how to). Denihilonihil (talk) 16:29, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Japanese article is much better
Take a look at the Japanese language version of this article. It is much more extensive. Is there any way for us to translate it into English and use it? Worldruler20 (talk) 02:37, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Added a Expand Japanese tag. Helpspoke (talk) 14:12, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

Rewrote All
I rewrote all of this article by translating a large part of Japanese version, more extensive and correct, and remove tags Refimprove and Expand Japanese. All names are unified to the order of Family-First and romanized more exactly. Further detailed information will be translated later. (For example, plan to attack Saionji, relation between Prince Chichibu Yasuhito and young officers, the executive at the time, fictions, bibliography in Japanese, and so on)

If any mistake in grammar or terms (especially concerning the law and politics), please correct my poor English.--202.71.90.196 (talk) 07:28, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

Needs English grammar/style help
It seems this was translated from Japanese to English. I know this is difficult; I certainly would have trouble with Japanese. But the article is replete with awkward phrases and grammar miscues in English, making it difficult to read. Someone needs to help clean it up (without changing the content.) I'll do some, but I don't have time to fix up the whole thing.

International Reaction?
Can someone add the reaction from international embassies and overseas at the time? Identity0 (talk) 07:22, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

Matsumoto Seichō
The following text was a reference in the development section. I took it out because: 1) It should be a reference (a note perhaps?) 2) I am not really sure where the best place for it is.

If anyone ones to attempt to find a good place for it, feel free, otherwise I will come back to it at a later date.

Matsumoto Seichō infers that it is in order to occupy the Imperial Palace that they have assigned a large part of the forces. According to his Shōwa Shi Hakkutsu (『昭和史発掘』), there seems to be several reasons: Andō was against going into action to the very end, because he thought it was too early to carry out their plan. But he finally made up his mind. Matsumoto writes he thought his participation made the plan realizable: Both Yamaguchi and Andō were on commander of weekly duty 1st and 3rd infantry Reg, Nakahashi's company was on palace-guard duty, and Andō had power to set a large troops at the metropolitan police department, which was placed very close to the Palace. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Heywoodg (talk • contribs) 12:28, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
 * 1) The company of Nakahashi was on palace-guard duty of emergency, on the day of Feb. 26. They could freely decide which company took turn on duty in the Regiment, because in fact “emergency” seldom occurred.
 * 2) After attack on Takahashi Korekiyo, Nakahashi went into the Palace. He was caught when he tried to contact to the Metropolitan Police Department by flag signaling. Then Nakahashi escaped from the Palace alone.

Completed copy-edit
-- The     copyeditor's corner   18:30, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

Takahashi consistency re:depression actions
In this article it states that Takahashi "...attempted to escape from the depression by amongst other things, cutting down on spending for the military,..."; however, in this article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression#Japan it states "By 1933, Japan was already out of the depression. By 1934, Takahashi realized that the economy was in danger of overheating, and to avoid inflation, moved to reduce the deficit spending that went towards armaments and munitions."

Nanyamba (talk) 02:58, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Saionji Kimmochi
Hi! Saionji Kimmochi is listed in Primary target list in the Prelude section but is ommited in the Overview section. Was he realy removed from the final version of primary target list? There is only note that Yamaguchi opposed Isobe's plan. --Sceadugenga (talk) 10:17, 15 October 2011 (UTC)