Episode 471 – The Osaka Incident

February 3, 2023 1 Comment

This week: the bizarre story of an attempted coup in Korea that, along the way, touches on everything from Japanese liberalism to the birth of overseas empire.

Sources

Driscoll, Mark W. The Whites are Enemies of Heaven: Climate Caucasianism and Asian Ecological Protectionism.

McMahil, Cheiron Sariko. “Japan’s First Feminists: The Life of Hideko Fukuda.” Off Our Backs 12, No 3 (March, 1982)

Patessio, Mara. Women and Public Life in Early Meiji Japan: The Development of the Feminist Movement.

Jansen, Marius B. “Oi Kentaro: Radicalism and Chauvinism.” The Far Eastern Quarterly 11, No 3 (May, 1952).

Images

Arai Shogo during his political career.
A woodcut from press coverage of the trial of the Osaka Incident. You can see the police lining both sides of the courtroom.
Fukuda Hideko. Taken after her release from prison.
Oi Kentaro, during his time in the Diet.

1 thought on “Episode 471 – The Osaka Incident”

  1. I am loving these episodes on obscure early Meiji politics. You are circling around the topic of my prospective PhD dissertation and I’m taking notes!

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