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Nisshō Inoue (井上 日召, Inoue Nisshō, April 12, 1887 – March 4, 1967) was a radical Buddhist preacher of Nichirenism who founded the interwar Japanese far-right militant organization Ketsumeidan (血盟団, League of Blood).
His name was Nissho Inoue, a convicted domestic terrorist and lay disciple of one of Japan’s most famous modern Zen masters, Gempo Yamamoto, abbot of both Ryutaku-ji and Shoin-ji temples.
Jul 15, 2023 · This is the very point of Zen Terror, which follows the life and acts of terror of the infamous lay Buddhist Inoue Nisshō (1887–1967), from his troubled childhood to his spy activities abroad, organization of political assassinations, imprisonment, and ultra-nationalistic activism in the postwar period.
The core of the book is a "life-history" of Inoue (p. 5), unfolding in ten chapters which take us from Inoue's "troubled youth" through his time as a mercenary, spy, and army interpreter in China, his experiments with religious practice upon his return to Japan, the Ketsumeidan Incident and its aftermath—which saw Inoue first imprisoned and ...
As Inoue recalled, 'We never gave a [formal] name to our group'.3 To both its members and their contemporaries in the national kakushin movement, it was known variously as 'the Inoue' or
Jun 12, 2022 · As a child, Nisshō Inoue was a troubled delinquent who left burning paper bags full of dog poo in the entrance of people's homes and developed an early taste for alcohol while also being haunted by ethical questions such as how we decide right and wrong.
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Mar 3, 2022 · Less than fifteen months after Prime Minister Hamaguchi Osachi was fatally wounded by the right-wing fanatic Sagoya Tomeo on 14 November 1930, the ‘mysterious priest’ Inoue Nissho orchestrated the Ketsumeidan jiken, or ‘Blood-Pledge Corps Incident’, in which the former Finance Minister Inoue Junnosuke and the Director-General of Mitsui ...
