The Unregistered Rebel: Kaneko Fumiko and the Defiance of Imperial Japan

It is a maxim of political history that one should never pit oneself against the raw, unchecked power of the state. The danger increases exponentially when that state has deified…

The Unregistered Rebel: Kaneko Fumiko and the Defiance of Imperial Japan

It is a fundamental truth of authoritarianism that the state demands not just obedience, but the total erasure of the individual’s moral agency. This is magnified a thousandfold when the…