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Political repression in Imperial Japan lasted from the
Meiji period The was an era of Japanese history that extended from October 23, 1868, to July 30, 1912. The Meiji era was the first half of the Empire of Japan, when the Japanese people moved from being an isolated feudal society at risk of colonizatio ...
to the fall of the
Empire of Japan The Empire of Japan, also known as the Japanese Empire or Imperial Japan, was the Japanese nation state that existed from the Meiji Restoration on January 3, 1868, until the Constitution of Japan took effect on May 3, 1947. From Japan–Kor ...
after the end of
World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
. Throughout this period, dissidence was curtailed by laws, and police, and dissidents became
political prisoners A political prisoner is someone imprisoned for their political activity. The political offense is not always the official reason for the prisoner's detention. There is no internationally recognized legal definition of the concept, although ...
. Several laws were passed to curtail dissidence in Imperial Japan, including the Public Peace Police Law in 1900, and the
Peace Preservation Law The was a Japanese law enacted on April 22, 1925, with the aim of allowing the Special Higher Police to more effectively suppress alleged socialists and communists. In addition to criminalizing forming an association with the aim of altering the ...
in 1925. The earliest secret police in Imperial Japan was the Danjodai, established in May 1869. The ''
Tokubetsu Kōtō Keisatsu The , often abbreviated , was, from 1911 to 1945, a Japanese policing organization, established within the Home Ministry for the purpose of carrying out civil law enforcement, control of political groups and ideologies deemed to threaten the publ ...
'' (''Tokko'') was established in 1911 following the Great Treason Incident of 1910.


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Political prisoners in Imperial Japan Political prisoners in Imperial Japan were detained and prosecuted by the government of the Empire of Japan for dissent, attempting to change the Kokutai, national character of Japan, Communism, Communist activity, or association with a group who ...
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Japanese dissidence during the Shōwa period Political dissidence in the Empire of Japan covers individual Japanese dissidents against the policies of the Empire of Japan. Dissidence in the Meiji and Taishō eras High Treason Incident Shūsui Kōtoku, a Japanese anarchist, was critica ...
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Censorship in the Empire of Japan in the Empire of Japan was a continuation of a long tradition beginning in the feudal period of Japan. Government censorship of the press existed in Japan during the Edo period, as the Tokugawa bakufu was in many ways a police state, which sou ...
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Tenkō is a Japanese term referring to the coerced ideological conversions of Japanese socialists and communists who, between 1925 and 1945, were induced to renounce leftist ideologies and enthusiastically embrace the Emperor-centric, capitalist, and ...
* Red Scare in Japan


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* * *{{cite news, url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/192293737?searchTerm=communist%201928%20japan%20arrested&searchLimits= , title=THINKING AS A CRIME TOKIO PROFESSOR ARRESTED, journal=Tweed Daily, pages=9, date= Apr 29, 1939 Human rights abuses in Japan Politics of the Empire of Japan