Sakae Osugi - Timeline of Osugi's Life

Timeline of Osugi's Life

• 1885 - January: Sakae Ōsugi born
• 1889 - December: Father transferred from Tokyo to Sendai
• 1891 - April: Enters elementary school
• 1895 - July: The first Sino-Japanese War begins; father dispatched to war zone
• 1897 - April: Advances to higher elementary school
• 1898 - April: Enters Shibata Middle School
• 1899 - Summer: Travels to Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka to visit relatives
• 1901 - April: Receives 30-day disciplinary confinement to Cadet School, probably for homosexual activity; November: Stabbed during fight with another cadet and expelled from Cadet School after returning to Shibata
• 1902 - January: Moves to Tokyo and enters Tokyo Academy; June: Mother dies; October: Enters fifth year at Junten Middle School
• 1903 - September: Enters Tokyo School of Foreign Languages (now Tokyo University of Foreign Studies), and experiments with Christianity; December (approximately): Begins to frequent the Heimin-sha
• 1904 - February: Russo-Japanese War begins; father dispatched to war zone
• 1905 - July: Graduates from Tokyo School of Foreign Languages
• 1906 - March: Arrested in demonstration against increasing Tokyo trolly fare; June: Released on bail; September: Marries Hori Yasuko, and begins teaching Esperanto; November: Begins editing Katei zasshi, and charges filed against Ōsugi for writing "Shimpei shokun ni atau"
• 1907 - March: Charges filed against Ōsugi for writing "Seinen ni uttau"; May: Incarcerated in Sugamo Prison; November: Released from prison
• 1908 - January: Arrested for the Rooftop Incident, and incarcerated in Sugamo Prison; March: Released from prison; June: Arrested for the Red Flag Incident; September: Incarcerated in Chiba Prison
• 1909 - November: Father dies
• 1910 - November: Released from prison
• 1912 - October: Begins publishing Kindai Shisō
• 1914 - April: First meets Kamichika Ichiko; September: Stops publishing Kindai Shisō, and introduced to Itō Noe; October: Begins publishing Heimin shimbun
• 1915 - March: Stops publishing Heimin shimbun; October: Begins publishing second Kindai shisō; December: Begins affair with Kamichika Ichiko, and removed from control of second Kindai Shisō
• 1916 - January: Second Kindai Shisō ceases publication; February: Begins affair (perhaps) with Itō Noe; May: Itō Noe leaves husband, Tsuji Jun, for Ōsugi; November: Stabbed by Kamichika Ichiko
• 1917 - January: Hori Yasuko renounces ties with Ōsugi; September: First daughter born
• 1918 - January: Begins publishing Bummei hihyō; April: Stops publishing Bummei hihyō, and begins publishing Rōdō shimbun; July: Stops publishing Rōdō shimbun
• 1919 - May: Strikes policeman Andō Kiyoshi; July: Charged for striking policeman; October: Begins publishing Rōdō undō; December: Incarcerated in Toyotama Prison, and second daughter born
• 1920 - March: Released from prison; June: Stops publishing Rōdō undō; October: Goes to Shanghai to attend Congress of Far Eastern Socialists; December: Taken into temporary custody at founding meeting of Nihon shakaishgi dōmei in Tokyo
• 1921 - January: Begins publishing second Rōdō undō in cooperation with Bolshevik faction; March: Third daughter born; June: Stops publishing second Rōdō undō; December: Begins publishing third Rōdō undō
• 1922 - June: Fourth daughter born; September: Attends Osaka meeting to found national labor union; November: Invited to attend the International Congress of Anarchists in Berlin in early 1923; December: Departs for Europe
• 1923 - February: Arrives in France; May: Arrested at May Day demonstration in St. Denis; June: Deported from France; July: Arrives in Japan. Last issue of third Rōdō undō; September: Murdered together with Noe Itō and nephew in aftermath of the Great Kantō Earthquake.