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February 26 Incident

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The location here is the Ministry of Foreign Affairs near where the Ministry of War was located.  The coup attempted to seize of the Ministry of War.  However, a precise location of the old Ministry of War needs to be found.

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February 26 Incident

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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