Peace Preservation Law
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The Peace Preservation Law was a Japanese law enacted on April 22, 1925, with the aim of allowing the Special Higher Police to more effectively suppress alleged socialists and communists. In addition
Title page of the Peace Preservation Law, 1925
Hotsumi Ozaki, who was hanged under the provisions of the Peace Preservation Law
Rice riots of 1918
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The rice riots of 1918 were a series of popular disturbances that swept across Japan from July to September 1918. Lasting for over eight weeks, the riots were the largest, most widespread, and most vi
Peace Preservation Law
…increasingly concerned that socialism and communism represented a threat to the emperor system and Japan's divine kokutai (国体, "national essence"). The 1918 Rice Riots and the assassination of Prime Minister Hara Kei only deepened concerns that dangerous ideas were spreading through society. Efforts to pass a Peace…
Ruins of the Okayama Seimai grain merchant building, burned by rioters in August 1918
Terauchi Masatake
Monument in Uozu, Toyama, marking the origin of the 1918 rice riots
Ruined headquarters of Suzuki Shōten (the country's largest rice importer) in Kobe, burned by rioters