Daijiro Furuta

Japanese: 古田大次郎 - ふるた・だいじろう

Year of death: October 15, 1925
Year of birth: January 1, 1900 (Meiji 33)
A nihilistic social activist of the Taisho period. Born in Tokyo as the second son of a government official. After graduating from Azabu Middle School in 1917, he entered Waseda University's higher preparatory school and then the university's English and law department (later transferring to the political science and economics department), where he participated in the university's Minjin Doumokai and Kensetsusha Doumo. In 1917, he formed the Kosakuninsha with Watanabe Yoshitoshi and Nagashima Arata, and became chief editor of the university's newsletter, Kosakunin. After meeting Nakahama Satoshi, he formed the Rebel Club (later the Guillotinesha). He was involved in the Kosaka Incident (1923), in which a bank employee was stabbed to death during a bank raid to raise funds, and then the assassination of General Fukuda Masataro (1924), which aimed to exact revenge on Osugi Sakae and his associates. Sentenced to death by the Tokyo District Court, he was executed without appeal. His memoirs, written with a beautiful heart, became bestsellers. <Works> "Confession of Death" and "Memories of a Death Row Inmate" <References> Takashi Nezu "Records of a Terrorist: The Life of Daijiro Furuta"

(Ryuji Komatsu)

Source: Asahi Japanese Historical Biography: Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. About Asahi Japanese Historical Biography

Japanese:

没年：大正14.10.15(1925)
生年：明治33.1.1(1900)
大正期のニヒリズム的な社会運動家。官吏の次男として東京に生まれた。大正6(1917)年麻布中学校卒業後,早稲田大学高等予科,次いで大学部英法科に入学(のち政経学科に転部),学内の民人同盟会,建設者同盟に参加。10年渡辺善寿,長島新らと小作人社を結成,機関紙『小作人』の編集責任者となる。中浜哲と知り,反逆者クラブ(のちギロチン社)を結成。資金稼ぎの銀行襲撃で一行員を刺殺した小坂事件(1923),次いで大杉栄たちの復讐を狙った福田雅太郎大将狙撃事件(1924)に関与。東京地裁で死刑の判決を受け,控訴せず刑死した。美しい心で記された回想類はベストセラーになった。<著作>『死の懺悔』『死刑囚の思い出』<参考文献>根津隆『あるテロリストの記録・古田大次郎伝』

(小松隆二)

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