Ōsugi Sakae

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Ōsugi Sakae
大杉 栄
Marugame, Japan
DiedSeptember 16, 1923(1923-09-16) (aged 38)
, Japan

Ōsugi Sakae (大杉 栄, 1885–1923) was a prominent Japanese

Amakasu incident
.

Biography

Ōsugi was born on January 17, 1885. He was raised in Tokyo and

Heimin-sha socialist group, and attend foreign language school.[3]

After graduating from foreign language school, Ōsugi was arrested during a Tokyo trolley fare increase demonstration in 1906 and later released on bail. He married Hori Yasuko and became an

Heimin Shimbun (1914–1915), and Kindai shisō again, briefly. In the same time period, he met and began affairs with Ichiko Kamichika and Itō Noe. In 1916, as Itō left her family for Ōsugi, Kamichika stabbed Ōsugi. Ōsugi was divorced by 1917 and had a daughter with Itō.[4]

Ōsugi briefly published Bummei hihyō and Rōdō shimbun in 1918, and Rōdō undō from 1919–1920 (and again in 1921). He was briefly jailed in-between for hitting a police officer and his second daughter was born.

In June 1920 Osugi was contacted by the Korean

Director Kiju Yoshida made Eros + Massacre (エロス+虐殺) in 1969, about Ōsugi's life.[9]

See also

  • High treason incident

References

  1. ^ Cybriwsky 2011, p. 104.
  2. ^ Stanley 1982, p. xv.
  3. ^ a b Stanley 1982, p. xvi.
  4. ^ Stanley 1982, p. xvii.
  5. ^ Stanley 1982, pp. xvii–xviii.
  6. ^ Stanley 1982, p. xviii.
  7. ^ Cybriwsky 2011, p. 21.
  8. ^ Robert, Scalapino (1967). The Japanese Communist Movement 1920-19667. Berkeley: University of California Press.
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