Osugi Sakae, Anarchist in Taisho Japan: The Creativity of the Ego (Harvard East Asian Monographs)

A biography of Sakae Ōsugi, a radical Japanese anarchist during the Meiji Period. Ōsugi published numerous anarchist periodicals, helped translate western anarchist essays into Japanese, and created Japan's first Esperanto school in 1906. He and others were murdered in 1923 by military police in what became known as the Amakasu Incident. Contents Acknowledgments Preface Chronology of Osugi Sakae’s Life One. Family, School, and Friends Two. Military Aspirations Three. Socialist Beginnings Four. Prison Five. Intellectual Foundations Six. Ösugi and the Police Seven. Scandal and Eclipse Eight. Theories on the Labor Movement and Art Nine. The Russian Revolution and the Anarchist-Bolshevik Split Ten. Ösugi in Europe Eleven. The Great Konto Earthquake and Ösugi's Murder Conclusion Notes Bibliography Glossary Index Thomas A. Stanley. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. [205]-220.