Shūsuke Nomura (野村 秋介, 14 February 1935 – 20 October 1993) was a Japanese ethno-nationalist (民族派) activist.
In 1963 Nomura burned down the home of politician Ichirō Kōno, for which he served 12 years in prison.
[1] On 3 March 1977, in what came to be known as the Keidanren incident, he and three others entered the Japan Federation of Economic Organizations headquarters with pistols, hunting rifles and Japanese swords, initially taking 12 staff members hostage and confining them in the chairman's office for about 11 hours.
[2] Nomura and his Kaze no Kai (風の会, "Wind Party") ran in the 1992 Upper House election.
[3] In October 2013 NHK board member Michiko Hasegawa [ja] distributed an essay at a memorial for Nomura in which she said that Emperor Akihito became a "living god"[3] again when Nomura shot himself, "whatever [the postwar] Constitution might say".