, or , began in October 1932 when Kyoto Imperial University Faculty of Law Professor
Takigawa Yukitoki lectured on the need for the judiciary to understand the social roots of
deviance when considering individuals who are before them.
The climactic moment occurred in May 1933, when
Education Minister Hatoyama Ichiro announced that Dr. Takigawa's theory of
criminal law
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advocated
Marxist
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philosophies and suspended him from teaching. The remaining members of the Faculty of Law resigned from their positions in
protest
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Protests can be thought of as acts of coopera ...
,
students boycotted classes, and communist sympathisers organised a protest movement. The Ministry of Education suppressed the movement by firing Takigawa.
See also
* ''
No Regrets for Our Youth
is a 1946 Japanese film written and directed by Akira Kurosawa. It is based on the 1933 Takigawa incident.
The film stars Setsuko Hara, Susumu Fujita, Takashi Shimura and Denjirō Ōkōchi. Fujita's character was inspired by the real-life Hotsum ...
'' (1946 film)
*
Japanese resistance during the Shōwa period
Political dissidence in the Empire of Japan covers individual Japanese dissidents against the policies of the Empire of Japan.
Dissidence in the Meiji and Taishō eras High Treason Incident
Shūsui Kōtoku, a Japanese anarchist, was critical ...
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