On this day in 1911, the Japanese government executed twelve anarchists, including radical journalists Kanno Sugako and Kōtoku Shūsui (shown), as part of a widespread crackdown on left-wing activism. Among those executed were Uchiyama Gudō, a Buddhist priest and socialist who spoke out against the Meiji government for its imperialism and advocated for conscripted soldiers to desert en masse.
The pretext for this crackdown was the "High Treason Incident", a plot to assassinate the Emperor of Japan. The incident began when police searched the room of Miyashita Takichi, a young lumbermill employee, and found materials which could be used to construct bombs, concluding that there was a broader conspiracy to harm the imperial family.
On the basis of this plot, the Japanese government rounded up leftist activists from all over the country. 24 of the 26 defendants actually brought to trial were sentenced to death, despite the evidence against nearly all of them being circumstantial.
Among those executed anarcha-feminist journalist Kanno Sugako (some sources say she was executed on January 25th). At the age of 29, Kanno became the first woman with the status of political prisoner to be executed in the history of modern Japan.
Prior to his execution, Kōtoku Shūsui etched this message on the wall of his cell: "How has it come about that I have committed this grave crime? Today my trial is hidden from outside observers and I have even less liberty than previously to speak about these events. Perhaps in 100 years someone will speak out about them on my behalf."
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It's like fans of the ultramarines of in 40k. All this diverse grotesquerie and passionate evil to embrace, and you chose the cops
I respect you 40k mfs, the first time I ever got exposed to it was band class in middle school and there was only one other dude with my instrument, and he would segue into 40k lore literally every day without fail. it drove the instructor insane but he was mostly concerned with stopping percussion "people" from actively trolling or physically fighting one ankther
Moral of the story is the lore is pretty sick ngl
I'm not really a big 40k nerd tbh, both too nerdy and not nerdy enough for it. I was into what is considered more "highbrow" nerd stuff like lotr, dune, and Ursula LeGuin at that age. I was not cool it turns out
Most of what I learned of 40k lore was from looking for evidence of satire to trot out in arguments with insufferable people like you describe, though I did come to enjoy the satire after enough exposure. I can't bear 40k communities though
Wizards of Earthsea was insane in middle school god damn
I read it and Garth Nix's Abhorsen series in one very memorable summer at that age, good times
Lmao yeah Garth Nix was huge and percy jackson, still is, and rhe bartimaeus books uhhh I'm missing a few of the popular YA shit from that era. Talking to some of my younger cousins and they're getting into the city of bones or mortal machines or tf it's called that shit blends together, seems rly cheesy and like Dungeons and Dragons campaign-transcription tier like half the movies they put out there under Marvel now. Ranger's apprentice and a lot of the same YA fiction. Only the games are different.
I tried to convince their parents roblox is evil