Japan and the High Treason Incident

This book shows the far reaching impact of the high treason incident for Japanese politics and society, and the subsequent course of Japanese history. Taking an interdisciplinary and global approach, it demonstrates how the incident transformed modern Japan in many and unexpected ways, and sheds light on the response of authoritarian states to radical democratic opposition movements elsewhere. It examines the effects of the incident on Japanese history, literature, politics and society, as well as its points of intersection with broader questions of anarchism, colonialism, gender and governmentality.