Life and career
In 1963 Nomura burned down the home of politician Ichirō Kōno, for which he served 12 years in prison. On 3 March 1977, in what came to be known as the Keidanren incident, he and three others entered the Japan Federation of Economic Organizations headquarters with pistols, hunting rifles and Japanese swords, initially taking 12 staff members hostage and confining them in the chairman's office for about 11 hours. The four called themselves the "Youth Alliance to Overthrow the YP Yalta Conference">Yalta-Potsdam">Yalta_Conference.html" ;"title="nowiki/>Yalta Conference">Yalta-PotsdamSystem" and had the stated goal of "throwing a hammer against the deception of the post- war system". After Yoko Sugiyama ( Yukio Mishima's wife) decided to intervene by imploring them to release the hostages, the group gave in to her demand, due to the respect they had for Mishima. Nomura then served another 6 years in prison. He continued to maintain that circumstances sometimes justified such violence. Nomura and his Kaze no Kai (, "Wind Party") ran in the 1992 Japanese House of Councillors election">1992 Upper House election. The party was behind in the polls when the ''Legacy
In October 2013 NHK board member distributed an essay at a memorial for Nomura in which she said that Emperor Akihito became a "living god" again when Nomura shot himself, "whatever [the postwar] Constitution might say". Before Japan's loss in World War II, Japanese emperors had been deified, but the postwar constitution demoted the emperor to a symbolic, human role.References
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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Nomura, Shusuke 1935 births 1993 deaths Suicides by firearm in Japan Japanese criminals Japanese activists Japanese nationalists Japanese prisoners and detainees Prisoners and detainees of Japan