Shūsui Kōtoku

Short text from 1900 by Japanese anarchist Shusui Kotoku arguing for the abolition of money and in favour of socialism.

Kõtoku Shüsui, whose name has become a kind of legend since the war (although in the country town where he was born, people still look embarrassed if you mention his name), was Japan's first real anarchist and the Japanese movement's first revolutionary martyr. At the time when Japan was launching its imperialistic programme, Kõtoku opposed nationalism and militarism despite the popular fervour aroused by the way…

A history of the once-influential anarchist movement in the Japanese Islands in the 19th and 20th centuries.

A short biography of journalist Kotoku Shusui, who helped introduce anarchism to Japan and was executed for treason.

John Crump's history of anarchism and the anarchist movement in Japan from the beginning of the 20th…