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On May 14, 1932, film icon Charlie Chaplin arrived in Japan as a guest of then-Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi. The next day, he went with the Prime Minister's son to watch a sumo match.
On that same day, May 15th, Inukai was assassinated by junior Naval officers in a move that ended civilian control over the Imperial Japanese government.
As it turns out, however, the original assassination plot had included Chaplin as an additional target, meant to rile the UK and US up.
Now, say Chaplin decides against going to see the sumo match, is in the Inukai's vicinity like the assassins expected, and is thus shot as well. What would the exact fallout of the attack be, cinematically and politically?