Girochinsha (Guillotine Society) was an early 20th century

Japanese anarchist Anarchism in Japan began to emerge in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as Western anarchist literature began to be translated into Japanese. It existed throughout the 20th century in various forms, despite repression by the state that becam ...

group that unsuccessfully targeted members of the imperial state. Their early 1920s plot to attack the

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Hirohito Emperor , commonly known in English-speaking countries by his personal name , was the 124th emperor of Japan, ruling from 25 December 1926 until his death in 1989. Hirohito and his wife, Empress Kōjun, had two sons and five daughters; he was ...

led to the hanging of members Furuta Daijirō and Nakahama Testu. The group is portrayed in the 2018 film ''

The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine ''The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine'' is a 2018 film directed by Takahisa Zeze about women's sumo wrestling and anarchism after the 1923 Great Kanto earthquake. The film won the Busan Film Festival's Bright East Films Award while in produc ...

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