On 25 Jauary 1911, in anarchist history we remember the execution of Kanno Sugako.
Kanno was a journalist, feminist and anarchist who had previously been imprisoned after a police attack on a small demonstration in Tokyo, known as the Red Flag Incident.
In 1910, police uncovered a plot to assassinate the Emperor of Japan and made mass arrests of anarchists and other leftists. Of those arrested, 26 people were brought to trial, most of them had nothing to do with it but 24 of them were found guilty on circumstantial evidence.
Kanno was alleged to be the ringleader of the plot. Unrepentant in her testimony, she said her only regret was that the plot had failed. She was executed at 29 years of age and remains the only woman executed for treason in Japan to this day.
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