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Place of Birth: Nakamura, Japan
About Kōtoku Shūsui
- Kotoku Denjiro (?? ???, November 5, 1871 – January 24, 1911), better known by the nom de plume Kotoku Shusui (?? ??), was a Japanese socialist and anarchist who played a leading role in introducing anarchism to Japan in the early 20th century, particularly by translating the works of contemporary European and Russian anarchists, such as Peter Kropotkin, into Japanese.
- He was a radical journalist, and he was executed for treason by the Japanese government. He also contributed articles to Sekai Fujin (Women of the World), a socialist women's newspaper, and co-founded the Heimin Shimbun (Common Peoples' Newspaper) with another Yorozu Choho journalist, Toshihiko Sakai.
- This paper's outspoken anti-war stance and disregard of the state's press laws landed its editors in trouble with the government on numerous occasions, and Kotoku himself served a five-month jail sentence from February to July 1905. His final work is Kirisuto Massatsuron (?????, On the Obliteration of Christ).
- In this book, he claimed that Jesus was a mythical and unreal figure.
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