Japan | Japanese | Travel Essay
April, 2019Toriko Wakasugi was a renowned journalist and fiction writer who wrote extensively on traveling alone in Japan as a woman. Though not directly mentioned, this account of her stay at active volcano Mount Asama was primarily to recuperate from ailing health caused by her imprisonment in Tokyo the year before for violating the security maintenance law (which sought to stamp out socialism, labor movements and unions, communism, anarchism, and essentially liberalism) by attending the wake of a socialist contemporary. By publishing the piece in the popular national newspaper Miyako Shimbun in late July of 1934, she managed to share via subtext her post-detainment suffering and refusal to cease reporting on socialist issues such as rural poverty in spite of the oppressive political climate of the time.
- Marissa Skeels
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