Japan and the High Treason Incident

Masako Gavin is an Associate Professor in Japanese Studies at Bond University, Australia.Ben Middleton is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Ferris University, Japan.

• Introduction Part 1: Assessing the Significance of the High Treason Incident: Now and Then in Japan 1. The Centennial of the High Treason Incident 2. The Significance of the Centennial of the High Treason Incident Part 2: Colonialism and the High Treason Incident 3. From 1910 to 2010: Japanese Colonialism and the Discursive Framework of High Treason 4. The Historical Context of the ‘High Treason Incident’: Governmentality and Colonialism Part 3: Anarchism and the High Treason Incident 5. An Ethos of Resistance: The Direct Action-Parliamentarism Debate of 1907 6. The Reaction of Jewish Anarchists to the High Treason Incident Part 4: Gender and the High Treason Incident 7. A Woman of Ill Fame: Reconfiguring the Historical Reputation and Legacy of Kanno Suga 8. Four Women, Four Incidents: Gender, Activism and Martyrdom in Modern Japan Part 5: Literature and the High Treason Incident 9. Revisiting ‘Izumiya Dyers’: Subaru, the Father and the High Treason Incident 10. Beyond Early Socialism: Kobayashi Takiji’s Sense of ‘Transition Periods’ Part 6: Biography and Ideology in the High Treason Incident and Beyond 11. Abe Isoo’s Social Democratic Commitments to Future Citizens after the High Treason Incident 12. The High Treason Incident, Ôishi Seinosuke and the ‘Shingû Group’ 13. Kawakami Hajime and Inoue Tetsujirô’s Conflicting Views of Religion and the State: Nationalism and Liberalism After the High Treason Incident 14. Science, Christianity and Confucianism in the Lives of An Jung-geun, Kôtoku Shûsui, Ôsugi Sakae and Lu Xun 15. Lives Lived, Lives Lost: Sketches of the Lives of the Defendants in the High Treason Incident of 1910-11 Conclusion: Coda: The High Treason Incident and Beyond