Yagi Akiko (1895–1983) was an anarchist writer and activist. She wrote for anarchist women's arts journals ''Fujin Sensen'' (The Women's Front) and ''

Nyonin Geijutsu The ''Nyonin Geijutsu'' (女人芸術), which translates to ''Women's Arts'', was a Japanese women's literary magazine that ran from July 1928 to June 1932. It was published by Hasegawa Shigure. They published 48 issues that focused on feminism an ...

'' (Women's Arts) on topics including bolshevism, the commercial commodification of women, and the imperial founding of

Manchukuo Manchukuo, officially the State of Manchuria prior to 1934 and the Empire of (Great) Manchuria after 1934, was a puppet state of the Empire of Japan in Northeast China, Manchuria from 1932 until 1945. It was founded as a republic in 1932 afte ...

, a puppet state that she described as a slave, having traded one imperial ruler for another. Her travelogue "Letters from a Trip to Kyushu", written with Fumiko Hayashi, tells of their drinking and meeting men, as two modern women outré for the time period.

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