the plan and attempt to sabotage the project. However, Kato assassinates the leader of the Japanese Freemasons, allowing the curse to go to completion. In 1960, Kato returns to Japan amidst the chaos of student protests against the signing of the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan. There he recruits the eager young writer Yukio Mishima and manipulates him. Eventually, a series of events escalate, culminating in the author's ritual suicide on November 25, 1970. In 1998, Katō returns to stir up another earthquake under Tokyo by arousing the water dragon. At this point in the story, Katō is defined as another version of Taira no Masakado himself. Just as Masakado sought to overthrow the current Japanese government in his time, so does Katō seek to overthrow the contemporary Imperial authority by eliminating the capital Tokyo. Amidst the wreckage of the Imperial Capital, Kato and his allies contend with the remaining defenders of Tokyo, which include a resurrected Yukio Mishima and Keiko Tatsumiya's apprentice. After a long struggle, Kato is finally defeated. Katō's past is more deeply explored in the spin-off novel Teito Monogatari Iroku. In this novel, it is also revealed that he is the last descendant in a long line of mystics. His predecessor was Jubei Katō, a character whose story is chronicled in the novels Teito Gendan and Shin Teito Monogatari. In The Great Yokai War, Katō returns to Japan in 2005 with an army of monsters created from discarded objects infused with Yokai under his command in another attempt to destroy Tokyo. This time he is stopped by the efforts of a band of native yokai and a young boy wielding the power of the Kirin Rider. Despite being defeated, gaining Azuki bean-like pupils in the process, Katō survives the encounter and it is implied that at the end that he is ready to execute another plan. Works appeared in Literature Teito Monogatari (1985–1989) Teito Monogatari Gaiden (1995) Teito Gendan (1997) Shin Teito Monogatari (2001) Teito Monogatari Iroku (2001) The Great Yokai War (2005) Stage Teito Monogatari (1985) by the Tokyo Grand Guignol Theater Company Film Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis (1988) Tokyo: The Last War (1989) Teito Monogatari Gaiden (1995) The Great Yokai War (2005) TV Kamen Rider Norida (Episode: "Horror! Teito Taisen Man!", 1989) Manga BABYLON TOKYO (1987) Teito Monogatari (1987) Teito Monogatari: TOKIO WARS (1989) Anime Doomed Megalopolis