List of Japanese dissidents in Imperial Japan

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This list contains the names of Japanese dissidents in Imperial Japan, which lasted from the Meiji period (1868-1912) to the end of World War II. The list includes, but not limited to, communists, anarchists, and religious dissidents.

• Kazuo Aoyama, a communist

• Taisen Deshimaru, a buddhist teacher

• Teru Hasegawa, an esperantist

• Shoichi Ichikawa, a Japanese Communist Party member
• Yuki Ikeda
• Ayako Ishigaki, a journalist
• Noe Itō

• Wataru Kaji, a writer
• Shigeo Kamiyama, a Japanese Communist Party member
• Fumiko Kaneko, a pre-Shōwa period assassin
• Sen Katayama, founding member of the Japanese Communist Party
• Takiji Kobayashi, an author of proletarian literature
• Shūsui Kōtoku, a Japanese anarchist
• Tokuda Kyuichi

• Kenji Miyamoto, Japanese Communist Party member

• Daisuke Namba, pre-Shōwa period assassin
• Eitaro Noro, Japanese Communist Party member
• Sanzo Nosaka, Japanese Communist Party leader

• George Ohsawa, pacifist
• Shigeki Oka, socialist
• Sakae Ōsugi, anarchist

• Yoshio Shiga

• Jōsei Toda, Soka Gakkai member
• Makoto Tomioka, anarchist

• Mitsu Yashima, artist, and wife of Taro Yashima
• Taro Yashima, artist

• Japanese dissidence during the Shōwa period