page_title: Matsue incident
section_title: Uprising and assignments
hierarchical_section_title: Matsue incident / Uprising and assignments
caption_attribution_description: 松江護國神社の境内の写真です。
context_page_description: The Matsue incident, also known as the Matsue Riot incident, Imperial Voluntary Army incident, or the Shimane Prefectural Office incendiarism, was an incident that occurred in Japan immediately after the Japanese surrender at August 15th. The incident was staged by about forty dissidents, who attacked facilities in Matsue City, Shimane Prefecture, at dawn on August 24, 1945, resulting in one fatality.
context_section_description: Those who participated in the uprising gathered at 1 a.m. at the Matsue Gokoku Shrine. All were in their twenties. The men were clad in the khaki-colored national uniforms of that time, while the women wore a simple kimono or monpe. Hasegawa and Moriwaki had Japanese swords. Fujii had four sticks of dynamite. There were 15 rifles available, including type 38 rifles obtained from Matsue Middle School. The students, anticipating this possibility, had hidden the bullets. Before the uprising, Okazaki addressed them and told them that their deaths would be like that of the samurai Kusunoki Masashige, who was an inspiration for the Meiji Restoration. This new uprising would similarly lead to the spiritual restoration of Japan. Hatano related the situation in Tokyo and Hasegawa gave them their assignments:
  The governor's house: Okazaki and 5 others
  The prosecutor's house: Shigeo Takagi and 3 others
  The prefectural office: Shokichi Moriwaki and 3 others
  Matsue post office: Ryosaburo Fujii and 2 others
  Chugoku power plant: Bunmei Hasegawa and 4 others
  Shimane newspaper: Seto Shiranami and 4 others
  Ono gun shop: Yasuhiko Hatano and 4 others
  Distribution of pamphlets: Kan-ei Moriwaki and 15 woman members of the group.
  It was decided that after every team attained their respective goals, they would go to the broadcasting station. Whoever resisted them was to be killed.
  The number of group members differs according to the source consulted; the smallest number was 15: Okazaki and 14 other people. Other sources say 34 men and women including Okazaki;
  46 people were collected by Okazaki; 47 people, 16 of them  women; 48 people, 8 of whom were women; and 40 plus several other people.
caption: Matsue Gokoku Shrine, photo taken in 2008
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