Popular Front Incident

The Popular Front Incident (人民戦線事件, Jinmin sensen jiken) refers to the Imperial Japanese government's suppression of a perceived threat from the political left after the fall of Nanjing during the Shōwa period.[1] During the incident, approximately 400 people were arrested by the authorities between December 1937 and February 1938.[2] Amongst those arrested during the incident were Kanson Arahata, Saburō Eda, Ryōkichi Minobe, Itsurō Sakisaka, Kōzō Sasaki, Minoru Takano, and Hitoshi Yamakawa.[3][4]

Tokyo Asahi Shimbun's coverage of the first wave of arrests

See also

References
  1. Moore, Aaron William (2013). Writing War: Soldiers Record the Japanese Empire. Harvard University Press. p. 335. ISBN 9780674059061.
  2. Marshall, Byron K. (1992). Academic Freedom and the Japanese Imperial University 1868–1939. University of California Press. p. 205. ISBN 9780520912533.
  3. Yamamoto, Mari (2004). Grassroots Pacifism in Post-War Japan: The Rebirth of a Nation. Routledge Curzon. p. 60. ISBN 9780415335812.
  4. Hoover, William D. (2011). Historical Dictionary of Postwar Japan. Scarecrow Press. p. 181. ISBN 9780810854604.
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