Shiro Nonaka
Native name	野中 四郎
Born	(1903-10-27)27 October 1903 Okayama,Okayama Prefecture,Empire of Japan
Died	29 February 1936(1936-02-29) (aged 32) Tokyo City,Tokyo Prefecture, Empire of Japan
Branch	Imperial Japanese Army
Service years	1924–1936
Rank	Captain
Conflicts	26 February Incident ‡‡

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Shirō Nonaka (野中 四郎,Nonaka Shirō; 27 October 1903 – 29 February 1936) was anImperial Japanese Army officer who was a central conspirator in the26 February Incident in 1936.^[1] His final rank wasCaptain.

Nonaka was born in the city ofOkayama, in a family of career military officers. He enrolled in Tokyo Fourth Middle School (now Toyama High School in the Shinjuku City),^[2] and graduated in the 36th class of theImperial Japanese Army Academy in 1924. Later, he became anInfantry Captain in 1933.^[1] During theFebruary 26 Incident, he led 500 soldiers to take overTokyo Metropolitan Police Department headquarters, but committed suicide on 29 February when thecoup d'état failed.^[1]

• Eiichi Sugasawara (『叛乱]』, 1954,Shin Saburi)
• Asao Matsumoto (『重臣と青年将校 陸海軍流血史』, 1958,Michiyoshi Doi)
• Fumitake Omura (『銃殺 2・26の叛乱』, 1964, Tsuneo Kobayashi) (as "Captain Noda")
• Kenichi Hagiwara (『226』, 1989,Hideo Gosha)

• Masaru Yamamoto (『狂騒昭和維新』, 1975)
• Ryuichi Onodera (『恋が散る、雪が舞う』, 2005)

• Showa Restoration

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