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In 1932, an ultranationalist Buddhist preacher developed a kill list and distributed pistols to followers. Each man had a target, whether a liberal politician or trading company tycoon. One man, one kill. When bullets began flying and the plot was discovered, it shook Japan—particulalry after an associated group assassinated the Prime Minister. But the trials of these men did not go as anticipated, instead rallying public support for their "patriotic actions." It was the start of Japanese political norms eroding, paving the way for an era of bloody political violence, hyper-partisanship, and increasing military control that would put the Japanese government, as it then existed, irrevocably on the path to destruction in the Second World War. While much attention is given to the rise of fascism in Nazi Germany, there's very little popular exploration of how Japan descended from a democracy governed by a constitution to what amounted to miltiary control.