Treacherous Women of Imperial Japan

Kanno Suga and Kaneko Fumika were both found guilty on different occasions in 1911 and 1926 of conspiring to assassinate the Japanese emperor. Kanno was executed and Kaneko hanged herself whilst in prison, but both women maintained their defiance of the state even in the face of death.Through examination of their own life stories and writings, Helene Bowen Raddeker brings to life the women''s own ...