May 15th Incident

(noun)

A 1932 coup staged in response to post-World war I disarmament efforts that aimed to limit the size of Japanese military. Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi was assassinated by 11 young naval officers. The following trial and popular support of the Japanese population led to extremely light sentences for the assassins, strengthening the rising power of Japanese militarism and and weakening democracy and the rule of law in Japan.

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Examples of May 15th Incident in the following topics:

  • The Rise of Japan

    • On May 15, 1932, the naval officers, aided by Army cadets and right-wing civilians, staged a coup that aimed to overthrow the government and to replace it with military rule (known as the May 15th Incident).

  • Jain Illustrated Manuscripts

    • Incidents of his life, such as his marriage and Indra marking his forehead, are often depicted in paintings; other paintings show him presenting a pottery bowl to his followers, painting a house, weaving, and being visited by his mother Marudevi.
    • A 15th century manuscript of Kalpasutra, a Jain text containing the biographies of the Tirthankaras, is particularly opulent.

  • Budget Resolutions

    • April 15th is the target date for congressional adoption of the budget resolution set by the Congressional Budget Act.
    • No penalty exists if the budget resolution is not completed by April 15th or if it is not completed at all.
    • However, the House can bypass this prohibition after May 15th and the Senate can bypass it by adopting a motion to waive the rule by majority vote.

  • The Passive Voice

    • Traditional scholarship says the wolf-figure is Etruscan, 5th century BC, with figures of Romulus and Remus added in the 15th century AD by Antonio Pollaiuolo.
    • Recent studies suggest that the wolf may be a medieval sculpture dating from the 13th century AD.

  • Behavior Modification

    • As an organization, it's useful to consider how the structure of an office, and the availability of certain resources, may impact overall behavior of all employees.
    • External forces that impact behavior are referred to as stimuli, and understanding what type of stimuli may modify behavior is useful in leading organizations.
    • With easy access to privacy and walls between employees, tendencies toward individual work and decision-making via small groups and small meetings may be more likely compared to an office with long tables, no offices, and no walls.
    • These influences on behavior are different than environmental influences because they are deliberately reactive to employee behaviors (as opposed to proactive or incidental).

  • Reporting Intangibles

    • Cost includes all costs of acquisition and expenditures necessary to make the intangible asset ready for its intended use—for example, purchase price, legal fees, and other incidental expenses.
    • Therefore, even though a company may incur substantial research and development costs to create an intangible, these costs are expensed.
    • The costs of acquiring and defending a copyright may be capitalized, but the research and development costs involved must be expensed as incurred.

  • Thyroid Gland Disorders

    • All of these disorders may give rise to goiter, which is an enlarged thyroid.
    • In others, it may not.
    • Many individuals may find the presence of thyroid nodules in the neck.
    • Most thyroid nodules do not cause any symptoms, and are discovered on an incidental examination.
    • One may be able to feel a hard nodule in the neck.

  • Outliers

    • This can be due to incidental systematic error or flaws in the theory that generated an assumed family of probability distributions, or it may be that some observations are far from the center of the data.
    • However, the sample maximum and minimum are not always outliers because they may not be unusually far from other observations.
    • Interpretations of statistics derived from data sets that include outliers may be misleading.
    • For example, a physical apparatus for taking measurements may have suffered a transient malfunction, or there may have been an error in data transmission or transcription.
    • A sample may have been contaminated with elements from outside the population being examined.

  • The Exploration of Christopher Columbus

    • By the 15th century, trade for luxuries, such as spices and silk, had inspired European explorers to seek new routes to Asia.
    • By the 15th century, European trade was expanding.
    • Following the unification of Castile and Aragon, and the completion of the reconquista in the late 15th century, Spain was fully committed to looking for new trade routes and oversea colonies.
    • On May 30, 1498, Columbus led the fleet to his wife's native homeland on the Portuguese Porto Santo Island.
    • Accompanied by his stepbrother, Bartolomeo, and his 13-year-old son, Fernando, he left Cádiz, Spain on May 12, 1502, with the ships Capitana, Gallega, Vizcaína, and Santiago de Palos.

  • Diverticular Disease

    • The diverticula may bleed, either rapidly, causing bleeding through the rectum, or slowly, causing anemia.
    • Risk factors for diverticulosis include increasing age, constipation. a diet that is low in dietary fiber, high intake of meat and red meat, connective tissue disorders such as Marfan syndrome that may cause weakness in the colon wall, and hereditary or genetic predisposition.
    • In cases of asymptomatic diverticulosis, the diagnosis is usually made as an incidental finding on other investigations.
    • Plain abdominal x-ray may show signs of a thickened wall, ileus, constipation, small bowel obstruction, or free air in the case of perforation.
    • These complications require skilled medical care of the infection, bleeding, and perforation which may include intensive antibiotic treatment, intravenous fluids, and surgery.