Monster of the Twentieth Century: Kotoku Shusui and Japan's First Anti-Imperialist Movement

by Kotoku Shusui and Robert Thomas Tierney

This extended monograph examines the work of the radical journalist Kotoku Shusui and Japan's anti-imperialist movement of the early twentieth century. It includes the first English translation of Imperialism (Teikokushugi), Kotoku's classic 1901 work.

Kotoku Shusui was a Japanese socialist, anarchist, and critic of Japan's imperial expansionism who was executed in 1911 for his alleged participation in a plot to kill the emperor. His...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520286340
• ISBN13: 9780520286344
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 9.1"