Mikami Taku

Mikami Taku or Mikami Takashi was a lieutenant in the Imperial Japanese Navy, who participated in the May 15 Incident in which Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi was assassinated.
He composed the "Ode of Showa Restoration" as an anthem for the Young Officers Movement.

Biography

Mikami Taku was born in Saga, Saga Prefecture. He graduated Naval Academy, Etajima in 1926. In 1930, He wrote the lyrics to Seinen Nihon no Uta.
In May 1932, Taku attacked Prime Minister Tsuyoshi Inukai in the May 15 Incident. In 1933, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for mutiny at a naval court-martial in Yokosuka. He served time in Kosuge Prison. In 1938, he was released on parole after four years and nine months, after a series of commutations due to pardons for Kigensetsu anniversary and the 50th anniversary of Meiji Constitution's promulgation.
In March 1941, Mikami founded Hishirogi Juku with Nisshō Inoue, Yoshitaka Yotsumoto, Goro Hishinuma and others, and served as the brain behind former Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe. In 1950, he was sentenced to five years in prison for drug trafficking. In 1961, he was arrested for his involvement in another coup plot, the abortive Sanmu incident.
He died in Izu, Shizuoka, in 1971.