Late Meiji Radicalism

Popular Rights Movement

Socialism Anarchism

Sakai Toshihiko, Kinoshita Naoe, Kotoku Shusui, Kanno Suga

Socialist Party formed May 20, 1901, banned instantly by government

Hibiya Riots 1905

Red Flag Incident 1908------------------------> Anarchism/Communism

Osugi Sakae

The High Treason Incident 1910-11

Kotoku, Kanno Suga, and 10 others hanged---------->"Winter" of Socialism

Death of Emperor Meiji/An Era Ends

1912-1913 Taisho Political Crisis

Political Parties contend with Oligarchy

"Taisho Demokurashii"

Labor Organizing, Union Activities

Yuaikai (Friendly Society) estab. 1912

Feminism

Hiratsuka Raicho, Seito (1911 )------------------------------------->Ito Noe

Ellen S. Key Alexandra Kollantai, Emma Goldman

WWI 1914-1919

1917 Bolshevik Revolution

1918 Rice Riots

Marxism

Yamakawa Hitoshi + Yamakawa Kikue

Kawakami Hajime, Kyoto Professor of Economics

author, Tales of Poverty (Bimbo monogatari)

Shinjinkaii (New Man Society)

Watanabe Masanosuke + Tanno Setsu---------------->JCP 1922

Fukumoto Kazuo

Sekirankai a Socialist Women's Organization (Red Wave Society) May Day 1921

Universal Manhood Suffrage and Peace Preservation Law 1925

See also additional outline of Taisho Political currents here.