The Blood Oath Corps Incident in Imperial Japan

The blood oath corps incident ended tisho democracy, the period of fundamentally democratic rule that japan experienced from around 19 12 to. arguably around this incident. It did provoke the emperor to appoint more cabinet members and to take away budgetary power from the national diet. And what are we to make of inoe's crimes? He organized the murders of a central banker and the head of a zibatsu, and he ends up serving six years for it. Who was directing him? All of this begs the question, who is more powerful than the central banks and the zibatsu in imperial japan? Kui bono? Who benefits? More on that next episode.