Background
Tachibana Kozaburo was born on March 18, 1893 in Mito, Ibaraki, Japan. He came from a samurai family, although his father was a fabric merchant.
孝三郎 橘
Tachibana Kozaburo was born on March 18, 1893 in Mito, Ibaraki, Japan. He came from a samurai family, although his father was a fabric merchant.
Tachibana studied for a while at the First Higher School, Tokyo.
In 1930 Tachibara established the Aikyo Juku School in Tokiwamura outside of Mito City, and devoted himself in youth guidance. He was involved in the assassination of Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi during the May 15 Incident and was sentenced to life imprisonment, serving eight years. In 1940 Tachibara was released and engaged in guidance of the Ibaraki Nominto (Farmers') Party.
His politics were agrarian and anti-capitalist. He argued that radical, violent change was needed to cleanse "the world of national politics...poisoned by mammon and the gang of corrupt industrialists".