List of Japanese dissidents in Imperial Japan
# 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
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
* X
* Y
* Z

## 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

* Tsunesaburō Makiguchi, Soka Gakkai member
* 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
