Schauerte, Michael

OSUGI SAKAE was born in 1885, the son of a career military officer, and grew up in Niigata Prefecture. Moved to Tokyo in 1901 after expulsion from Nagoya Military Cadet School; enrolled the following year in Foreign Language College. In 1904, came into contact with the socialist movement through Heimin shimbun (Commoners' News), a radical, anti-war newspaper edited by Kotoku Shusui and Sakai Toshihiko. Married Hori Yasuko in 1906 and was arrested that year for taking part in a demonstration against a streetcar fare hike. Other arrests and prison sentences followed, including a sentence of two-...