The Prison Memoirs of a Japanese Woman (Foremother Legacies Series)

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Kaneko Fumiko (1903-1926) wrote this memoir whilst in prison after being convicted of plotting to assassinate the Japanese emperor. In spite of an early lifetime of misery, deprivation, and hardship, she grew as much as be a robust and independent young girl. When she moved to Tokyo in 1920, she gravitated to left-wing groups and ultimately joined with the Korean nihilist Pak Yeol to form a two-person nihilist organization. Two days after the Great Tokyo Earthquake, in a general wave of anti-leftist and anti-Korean hysteria, the authorities arrested the pair and charged them with prime treason. Defiant to the top (she hanged herself in prison on July 23, 1926), Kaneko Fumiko wrote this memoir as an indictment of the society that oppressed her, the circle of relatives that abused and neglected her, and the imperial system that drove her to her death.

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