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Tokyo Asahi Shimbun's coverage of the first wave of arrests

The Popular Front Incident (人民戦線事件, Jinmin sensen jiken) refers to the Imperial Japanese government's suppression of a perceived threat from socialists and communists after the fall of Nanjing during the Shōwa period.[1] During the incident, approximately 400 people were arrested by the authorities between December 1937 and February 1938.[2] Amongst those arrested during the incident were Kanson Arahata, Saburō Eda, Ryōkichi Minobe, Itsurō Sakisaka, Kōzō Sasaki, Mosaburō Suzuki, Minoru Takano, and Hitoshi Yamakawa.[3][4]

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  1. ^ Moore, Aaron William (2013). Writing War: Soldiers Record the Japanese Empire. Harvard University Press. p. 335. ISBN 9780674059061.
  2. ^ Marshall, Byron K. (1992). Academic Freedom and the Japanese Imperial University 1868–1939. University of California Press. p. 205. ISBN 9780520912533.
  3. ^ Yamamoto, Mari (2004). Grassroots Pacifism in Post-War Japan: The Rebirth of a Nation. Routledge Curzon. p. 60. ISBN 9780415335812.
  4. ^ Hoover, William D. (2011). Historical Dictionary of Postwar Japan. Scarecrow Press. p. 181. ISBN 9780810854604.