Ito Noe

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Itō Noe (1895-1923)

Ito Noe (born January 21, 1895 in Fukuoka, Japan) was an anarchist, social critic, author and feminist.

She graduated from Ueno Girl's High School in Ueno, Tokyo, and joined the Seito-sha (a feminist magazine Seito society - The Bluestocking society, Japan) in 1912, and wrote social criticism and novels, and translated writing of Emma Goldman (Emma Goldman, The Tragedy of Woman's Emancipation, New York, Mother Earth Publishing Association, 1906, etc.).

Starting in 1916, she lived and worked with Osugi Sakae, where she continued to rise in the feminist group and showed growing leadership potential. On September 16, 1923, in the chaos immediately following the Great Kantō earthquake, Ito Noe, Osugi Sakae, and his 6 year old nephew were arrested, beaten to death and thrown into a well by a squad of military police led by Lieutenant Amakasu Masahiko near Imajuku, Fukuoka, Japan. Ito Noe was 28 years old.

The killing of such high profile anarchists, along with a young child, became known as the Amakasu Incident, and sparked surprise and anger throughout Japan.

Director Kiju Yoshida made Eros Plus Massacre in 1969, about Osugi Sakae, in which Ito features prominently.