List of Japanese dissidents in Imperial Japan

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.

A

 * Kazuo Aoyama, a communist

D

 * Taisen Deshimaru, a buddhist teacher

H

 * Teru Hasegawa, an esperantist

I

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

K

 * 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

M

 * Kenji Miyamoto, Japanese Communist Party member

N

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

O

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

S

 * Yoshio Shiga

T

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

Y

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