About the time of Sino - and Russo-Japanese wars , Japan succeeded in capitalization through the industrial revolution as soon as socialism spread against capitalism . However , the social movements were suppressed by the security police law of 1900 , and finally in the High Treason Incident of 1910 socialists were pressed by the military and the fascist government ... Kawakami Hajime wrote articles about poverty in a newspaper . He emphasized personal remodelling to solve poverty at first , however , later he became Marxist and he argued for social remodelling by social compulsion . Kōtoku Shūsui originally attempted to realize socialism through the Diet , however , he became a unionist and he argued for a direct action by a general strike . He was executed as the mastermind of the high treason incident of 1910 . Osugi Sakae argued for individual freedom using the principles of anarchism and unionism . He was seen as a threat by the government and was assassinated by military police in the disorder following the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake
1923 Great Kantō earthquake
1923 Great Kantō earthquake
Japanese philosophy