Yamamoto Kiyokatsu

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Career Japanese army officer and postwar Ground Self-Defense Force general. Commissioned from the Military Academy (52nd class) in 1939, he became a tank regiment company commander, graduated the War College, and ended the war as a major instructing at the Nakano intelligence school. Rejoining the police reserve in 1952 after the purges, with US Army special-warfare schooling, he helped create the psychological warfare defence course of the GSDF Intelligence School in Kodaira, Tokyo, headed its education section from March 1967 and served as deputy commandant (major-general rank) from July 1969 until retiring in February 1972. From late 1967 he was the de facto instructor of Yukio Mishima's Tatenokai, giving guerrilla-warfare lectures and leading street exercises and infiltration drills, while opposing the final coup plan. After retirement he published several books on Mishima, including Jieitai "Kage no Butai" - Mishima Yukio o Koroshita Shinjitsu no Kokuhaku (Kodansha, 2001).

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  Yukio Mishima

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  Yamamoto Kiyokatsu of the JGSDF intelligence school personally instructed Mishima and Tatenokai members in guerrilla warfare from their first meeting in December 1967 until their estrangement around November 1969; documented in his own memoirs and the Japanese Wikipedia articles on both men.

  The evidence favours the claim and nothing credible contradicts it, but it falls short of establishing it.

  Coach (1967–1969)

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  Frederico Muñoz

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  Yamamoto Kiyokatsu of the JGSDF intelligence school personally instructed Mishima and Tatenokai members in guerrilla warfare from their first meeting in December 1967 until their estrangement around November 1969; documented in his own memoirs and the Japanese Wikipedia articles on both men.

  “陸上自衛隊調査学校情報教育課長・山本舜勝とも親交し、共に民兵組織（のち「楯の会」の名称となる）会員への指導を行うことになる”

  — 三島由紀夫 - 日本語版ウィキペディア. Wikipedia (Japanese) link history info

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