(Original Caption) TOKYO: On Nov. 5th, Mishima with five uniformed followers charged in to the Ichigaya Station of the Japanese ground self-defense forces, slashed at soldiers who tried to stop them and took over the commanding officer's offices. Appearing on the balcony of the building, he delivered a speech to 2000 soldiers who surrounded it. "Japan's present politics are full of corruption," he said, closing his speech with the war cry of th old Japanese armed forces--"Tenno Banzai" (long live the emperor). He then disappeared into the building and committed "hara-kiri," traditional Japanese suicide.
