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Hey Mooncake, who is that in your new AVI?

That’s Kaneko Fumiko, Japanese nihilist anarchist tried and convicted of attempting to assassinate the Japanese emperor after the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. Ethnically Japanese, she refused identification with Japanese nationalism and imperialism and sympathized with Korean people’s oppression under Japanese rule.

Read her prison memoirs here: https://archive.org/details/KanekoFumikoThePrisonMemoirsOfAJapaneseWoman