March 15 incident
The March 15 incident (三・一五事件, San ichi-go jiken) was a crackdown on
Kawakami Hajime
.
Background
Although the
Giichi Tanaka, which had retained its majority by only one seat, evoked the provisions of the 1925 Peace Preservation Law and ordered the mass arrest of known communists and suspected communist sympathizers. The arrests occurred throughout Japan, and a total of 1652 people were apprehended.[1]
Consequences
About 500 of those arrested were eventually prosecuted in a series of open trials held by the
death penalty
to the already-draconian Peace Preservation Laws.
The writer
Kobayashi Takiji
later wrote March 15, 1928 based on the incident.
References
- Bowman, John (2000). Columbian Chronologies of Asian History and Culture. Columbia University Press. ISBN 0231110049.
- MacClain, James L (2001). Japan: A Modern History. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0393041565.
- * Rodger Swearingen and Paul Langer (1952). Red Flag in Japan. International Communism in Action 1919-1951
- ^ Bowman, Columbian Chronologies of Asian History and Culture. Pg 152