Ōsugi Sakae was a Japanese anarchist, writer, and social critic of the Taishō period. His thought centered on individualism, direct action, and the "expansion of the ego" as philosophical underpinning
Ōsugi c. 1920
Peter Kropotkin
Ōsugi with Bertrand Russell during the latter's visit to Japan, 1921
Kōtoku Denjirō, better known by the pen name Kōtoku Shūsui, was a Japanese socialist and anarchist who played a leading role in introducing anarchism to Japan in the early 20th century. Historian John
Kōtoku in 1909
A photograph of the Heimin-sha (Commoners' Society), who published the Heimin Shinbun newspaper
"Les martyrs japonais" (1911). French postcard with the pictures of Denjirō Kōtoku, Toshihiko Sakai, Sanshirō Ishikawa and Kōjiro Nishikawa.