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Japan and the High Treason Incident (Paperback)
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Japan and the High Treason Incident (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
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The 'High Treason Incident' rocked Japanese society between 1910
and 1911, when police discovered that a group of anarchists and
socialists were plotting to assassinate the Emperor Meiji.
Following a trial held in camera, twelve of the so-called
conspirators were hanged, but while the executions officially
brought an end to the incident, they were only the initial outcome
as the state became increasingly paranoid about national
ideological cohesion. In response it deployed an array of new
technologies of integration and surveillance, and the subsequent
repression affected not only political movements, but the whole
cultural sphere. 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 numerous and unexpected ways, and sheds light on
the response of authoritarian states to radical democratic
opposition movements elsewhere. The contributors examine 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, to
underline its historical and contemporary significance. With
chapters by leading Western and Japanese scholars, and drawing on
newly available primary sources, this book is a timely and relevant
study that will be of great interest to students and scholars
working in the fields of Japanese history, Japanese politics,
Japanese studies, as well as those interested in the history of
social movements.
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