Shinsaku Yanai

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Shinsaku Yanai (柳内伸作 Yanai Shinsaku?, born 1947, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese writer who formerly held the rank of major in the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force. He is a graduate of Tokyo Keizai University (東京経済大学?) and the Ground Self-Defense Force Research School (陸上自衛隊調査学校?), where he took courses in psychological warfare.[1][2] In 1992, while still employed by the SDF as an instructor of military history, he published an article in Japanese magazine Shūkan Bunshun in which he suggested that a coup was necessary to clean up corruption in the Japanese political establishment.[3] The incident was described as "an extreme source of embarrassment" for the SDF; the public were more amused than outraged by the article, and even some of Yanai's colleagues anonymously referred to him as a "crackpot".[4] In response, the SDF dismissed Yanai from his post. He was the first officer in any branch of the Self Defense Forces to be dismissed in response to his authorship of a newspaper article.[5]

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  1. ^ Yanai, Shinsaku (July 2005). 「糞尿」大全. Data House. ISBN 488718753X. 
  2. ^ The Research School was later merged into the Ground Self-Defence Force Kodaira School (陸上自衛隊小平学校?)
  3. ^ Sanger, David E.. "Japanese Major Suggests a Cure for Scandals", The New York Times, 1992-10-16. Retrieved on 2007-04-14. 
  4. ^ Stronach, Bruce (1995). Beyond the Rising Sun: Nationalism in Contemporary Japan. Greenwood, pp. 114-115. ISBN 0275950050. 
  5. ^ "Japan fires officer who advised coup", Boston Globe, 1992-11-13. Retrieved on 2007-04-14. 
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