Anarchism in Japan

1923 homicide case in Japan

mass murder of Koreans in Kantō region after Kantō Earthquake 1923

overview of anarchism in Japan

1910 plot to assassinate the Japanese Emperor Meiji

political rally in Tokyo on 22 June 1908, in which the release of Koken Yamaguchi from prison was met with by crowd waving red flags; the police suppressed the demonstration, and 10 activists were arrested

protests in Japan by students belonging to the Japanese New Left

1969 film by Yoshishige Yoshida

was a radical ideology promoted by a faction of the Japanese New Left that advocated for the destruction of the nation of Japan. The ideology was first conceived by Katsuhisa Ōmori, a member of the New Left, in the 1970s. Extending from anti-Japanese sentiments and viewpoints such as the Ainu Revolution Theory, it claimed that "the nation called Japan and the entire Japanese race should be extinguished from the face of the earth". Anti-Japaneseism makes claims that go far back in history, denying the founding of Japan and the history of the Japanese people. It advocated for the extermination o

thumb|A Japanese student protest in June 1968 thumb|A Zenkyōtō helmet The , commonly known as the , were Japanese student organizations consisting of anti-government, anti-Japanese Communist Party leftist and non-sectarian radicals. The Zenkyōtō were formed to organize students during the 1968–69 Japanese university protests. Unlike other student movement organizations, graduate students and young teachers were allowed to participate. Active in the late 1960s, Zenkyōtō was the driving force behind clashes between Japanese students and the police. Zenkyōtō groups were driven by alienation and a

1923 massacre of social activists in Japan