Ishikawa Sanshirō

Ishikawa Sanshirō ( Japanese 石川 三四郎 ; born May 23, 1876 in Saitama Prefecture ; died November 28, 1956 ) was a Japanese socialist, anarchist, and writer during the Taishō and Shōwa periods .

life and work

Ishikawa Sanshirō graduated as a lawyer from the "Tōkyō Hōgakuin" (東京 läuf), the forerunner of today's Chūō University . From 1902 he worked as a reporter for the daily newspaper "Yorozu Chōhō", but left it in 1903 together with Kōtoku Shūsui (1871-1911) and Sakai Toshihiko (1871-1933) when they supported the Russo-Japanese War . He became a member of the socialist association Heiminsha (平民 社) and wrote for their newspaper "Heimin Shimbun" until this association dissolved in 1905.

Attracted by Christianity, he was baptized by Ebina Danjō (1856–1937). As a leading Christian socialist, he founded the magazine "Shinkigen" (新紀元, Neue Zeit), which was published by the moderate socialist wing , in 1905 together with Abe Isoo and Kinoshita Naoe . In 1907 he supported the re-establishment of the Heiminsha.

After the treason incident in 1910 , in which many socialists suffered the death penalty, Ishikawa stayed in Europe from 1913 to 1920. That was the time when he moved away from active politics and the labor movement, dealt with political theories and turned away from Christian socialism and towards anarchism. In Paris he signed the Manifesto of the Sixteen . - Back in Japan he drove the anarchist movement forward through his group "Kyōgakusha" (共 学 社) and through his magazine "Dynamic". After Osugi Sakae's death , he was considered the leading Japanese anarchist.

After the Pacific War , Ishikawa supported the establishment of the "Anarchist Association of Japan" in 1946 (日本 ア ナ キ ス ト 同盟, Nihon Anakisuto Dōmei).

Ishikawa's work covers the history of Japanese and Western social movements, socialism and socialists. His two-volume autobiography was published in 1956.

Remarks

1. ↑ The newspaper "Yorozu Chōhō" (萬 朝 報) was founded in 1892 by the journalist Kuroiwa Ruikō (黒 岩 涙 香; 1862-1920) and developed into one of the leading newspapers of the time.

literature

• S. Noma (Ed.): Ishikawa Sanshirō . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 92.
• Hunter, Janet: Ishikawa Sanshirō . In: Concise Dictionary of Modern Japanese History. Kodansha International, 1984. ISBN 4-7700-1193-8 .

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Ishikawa is the family name, Sanshirō the first name.