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The refers to the Imperial Japanese government's suppression of a perceived threat from the political left after the fall of Nanjing during the Shōwa period. During the incident, approximately 400 people were arrested by the authorities between December 1937 and February 1938. Amongst those arrested during the incident were Kanson Arahata,
The refers to the Imperial Japanese government's suppression of a perceived threat from the political left after the fall of Nanjing during the Shōwa period. During the incident, approximately 400 people were arrested by the authorities between December 1937 and February 1938. Amongst those arrested during the incident were Kanson Arahata, Saburō Eda
was a Japanese party politician, prominent in the postwar period, who served two terms in the House of Councillors (Japan), Member of the House of Councillors and four terms in the House of Representatives (Japan), Member of the House of Repre ...
, Ryōkichi Minobe, Itsurō Sakisaka
(February 6, 1897 – January 23, 1985) was a Japanese Marxian economist. A professor of economics at Kyushu University, he is remembered as a leading theoretician of the Japan Socialist Party.
Biography
Sakisaka was born in Ōmuta, Fukuoka in ...
, Kōzō Sasaki, Minoru Takano
was a Japanese trade union leader. He served as the first secretary-general of the General Council of Trade Unions of Japan (Sōhyō) from 1951 to 1955. A charismatic figure, Takano succeeded in instilling a wide-ranging social activism into Sōh ...
, and Hitoshi Yamakawa
was a Japanese revolutionary socialist who played a leading role in founding the Japanese Communist Party in 1922. He was also a founding member of the Rono-ha (Labour-Farmer Faction), a group of Marxist thinkers opposed to the Comintern.
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See also
* Japanese dissidence during the Shōwa period * Yokohama IncidentReferences
{{Reflist Political repression in Japan Political and cultural purges Anti-communism in Japan 1937 in Japan 1938 in Japan December 1937 events January 1938 events February 1938 events