Editing Inukai Tsuyoshi (section)

==Assassination==
{{Main article|May 15 incident}}
[[File:Tsuyoshi Inukai May 15 Incident Asahi Shimbun.png|thumb|250px|May 15 Incident reported in the Tokyo ''Asahi Shimbun'']]
Inukai's struggle against the military led to his [[assassination]] during the May 15 Incident of 1932, which effectively marked the end of civilian political control over government decisions until after [[World War&nbsp;II]]. Inukai was shot by eleven junior Navy officers (most were just turning twenty years of age) in the Prime Minister's residence in Tokyo. Inukai's last words were roughly: {{Nihongo|''If we could talk, you would understand''|話せば分かる|hanaseba wakaru}} to which his killers replied {{Nihongo|''Dialogue is useless''|問答無用|mondō muyō}}.<ref>Toland, ''The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936–1945''. p. 10.</ref> The insurgents also attacked the residence of [[Makino Nobuaki]], the [[Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan|Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal]], the residence and office of [[Saionji Kinmochi]], headquarters of the Rikken Seiyukai, and tossed [[hand grenade]]s into Mitsubishi Bank headquarters in Tokyo, and several electrical transformer substations. The original assassination plan had included killing the English film star [[Charlie Chaplin]]&nbsp;– who had arrived in Japan on 14 May and was Inukai's guest&nbsp;– in the hope that this would provoke a war with the United States. However, at the time, Chaplin was watching a [[sumo]] wrestling match with the prime minister's son, [[Inukai Takeru]], and thus escaped. Inukai’s murderers received only light sentences for their actions.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Kennedy|first1=Malcolm Duncan|title=The Estrangement of Great Britain and Japan, 1917-35|year=1969|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=9780719003523|page=[https://archive.org/details/estrangementofgr0000kenn/page/229 229]|url=https://archive.org/details/estrangementofgr0000kenn|url-access=registration|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Saraf|first1=Nandini|title=The Life And Times Of Charlie Chaplin|date=19 January 2021|publisher=Prabhat Prakashan|isbn=9788184302080|page=118|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f7IwBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA118|language=en}}</ref>

Inukai's third son was writer, politician and post-war [[Ministry of Justice (Japan)|Minister of Justice]] [[Inukai Takeru]], whose granddaughter is popular actress [[Sakura Ando]]. His son-in-law was noted diplomat [[Kenkichi Yoshizawa]]. Through Yoshizawa, his great-granddaughter was [[Sadako Ogata]], who served as [[United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees]] from 1991 until 2001, and his great-grandson Yutaka Kawashima served as [[Board of Chamberlains#Grand Chamberlains|Grand Chamberlain]] to the Imperial Household. 
[[File:Inukai Tsuyoshi statue.JPG|thumb|upright|Statue of Tsuyoshi at Kibitsu Shrine in Bitchū]]