This week: the Great Kanto Earthquake was also the backdrop for one of the most famous murders of 1920s Japan, one that set the stage for a seismic shift within the nation’s political sphere. This week: who was Ito Noe, and how did her murder in a time of national emergency reflect a shift in Japan’s political discourse?
Sources
Schencking, J. Charles. The Great Kanto Earthquake and the Chimera of National Reconstruction in Japan
Driscoll, Mark. “Terrorism Against Modernity: The Amakasu incident and Japan’s ‘Age of Terrorism'”. In The Oxford Handbook of the History of Terrorism, eds. Carola Dietze and Claudie Verhoeven
Filler, Stephen. “Going Beyond Individualism: Romance, Personal Growth, and Anarchism in the Autobiographical Writings of Ito Noe.” US-Japan Women’s Journal 37, (2009).
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