Heimin Shimbun

A clip from The Common People's Newspaper (13 November 1904)
A photograph of the Heimin-sha (Commoners' Society), who published the Heimin Shimbun.

Heimin Shimbun (English: The Commoner's News) was a libertarian-socialist newspaper established in Japan at the beginning of the 20th century.

History and profile

Japanese anarchist Kōtoku Shūsui and Sakai Toshihiko founded Heimin Shimbun[1] in 1903.[2] Kōtoku Shūsui also served as one of the paper's editors. By the beginning of 1904 it was Tokyo's leading publication advocating socialism.[3] Eighty-two people eventually expressed their allegiance to socialism in this publication. Two of those people, Uchiyama Gudō and Kōtoku Shusui were convicted and executed in the High Treason Incident. Multiple issues of the newspaper were banned by the Meiji government because they were deemed politically offensive. The editors were arrested, fined and jailed. The paper ceased publication in 1905.[2] The last issue, came out in red, was printed on 18 January 1905.[2] After the disappearance of this paper, the socialist antiwar movement disappeared as well.[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Louis G. Perez (2013). Japan at War: An Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. p. 190. ISBN 978-1-59884-741-3. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 James L. Huffman (31 October 2013). Modern Japan: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Nationalism. Routledge. p. 35. ISBN 978-1-135-63490-2. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
  3. ↑ Victoria 1998, p. 41.
  4. ↑ Victoria 1998, p. 42.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 10/24/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.