内容简介

　　聚焦日本近代最大思想恐怖事件

　　打破百年沉寂照亮湮没于历史的黑暗篇章

　　第五十九届日本散文家俱乐部奖获奖作品

　　以无政府主义者宫下太吉制造炸弹为开端，幸德秋水等二十六人被指企图暗杀天皇，以“大逆罪”交付法庭。大审院特别刑事部在非公开审理中，没有传唤任何证人，仅用了三个星期左右的时间，就在1911年1月18日做出判决，以“大逆罪”判处二十四人死刑，同时以违反《爆炸物管制处罚规定》判处另外两人有期徒刑。判决后仅过了一个星期左右，被判死刑的秋水等十二人就分别被绞死，其余十二人被减为无期徒刑。史称“大逆事件”。战后研究表明，这是一起以构陷的罪名将个人的思想——自由、平等、博爱——视为犯罪加以审判，扼杀心灵自由的国家犯罪事件。

　　本书作者田中伸尚自1979年左右开始踏上走访“大逆事件”遗属和周边之旅的。那些被强行连坐的人，虽然各自程度和想法有所不同，但都属于当时社会中的少数派。他们反对战争，主张不剥削他人的生活方式，作为宗教人士关心遭受歧视者，思索如何才能实现平等、自由的社会，以及如何处理国家、天皇和个人的关系等这些每一个活着的个体无法回避的问题。他们是一些生活在烦恼、冲突之中，时而又有些性急的人。他们在社会主义和无政府主义等思想影响下发现的这些问题，既是当时文学和思想的题目，也是当时媒体的课题，同时也是当今的问题。

　　所谓家庭、国家、世界者皆为个人之聚合，只要个人具有独立、自由之精神及帮扶弱者、关爱邻人之真心并付诸行动，所有人皆能过上圆满之团体生活。故此我等人类须始终发挥独立自治、相互扶助之精神，并向反对此种精神者作殊死斗争。

　　——内山愚童（曹洞宗僧侣、“大逆事件”受难者）

　　作者简介

　　田中伸尚（たなかのぶまさ）

　　1941年生于东京。曾任报社记者，后成为非虚构作家。2002年以《赢得宪法的人们》（岩波书店）获得第八届和平与共同记者基金奖。2011年因《大逆事件》获第五十九届日本散文家俱乐部奖。此外还著有《不粉饰、不伪装、不欺瞒：管野须贺子与伊藤野枝》（岩波书店）和《被囚禁的年轻僧侣峰尾节堂：未完结的大逆事件与现代》（岩波书店）、《纪录：昭和天皇》（全八卷，绿风出版社）、《反忠：神坂哲的七十二万字》（一叶社）、《还有什么比这更悲哀的呢？》（七之森书馆）、《不服从的肖像》（树花社）等探讨个人自由与国家之间关系的多部作品。

　　译者

　　臧志军

　　复旦大学国际关系与公共事务学院教授。主要研究方向为比较政治理论,日本政治与行政等，著有《政府政治》、《文化改造与社会变革》、《变革中的日本政治与外交》（合著）、《日本公务员制度与政治过程》（合著）等，以及《论日本的新保守集权改革》、《日本自民党派阀政治研究》等论文；主持过《冷战后日本财界与外交政策过程研究》、《日本地方行政改革及其对中国的启示》等研究项目。译有《日本早期社会主义思想史》(合译)。

Content introduction

Focus on the biggest ideological terror in modern Japan

Breaking a century-long silence and illuminating a dark chapter lost in history

Fifty-ninth Japan Essayist's Club Award winner

With the anarchist Miyashita Taiji to make a bomb as the beginning, Xingde Qiushui and other 26 people were accused of attempting to assassinate the emperor, to "treason" delivered to the court. The Special Criminal Division of the Grand Court of Appeal held a closed trial without calling any witnesses, and after only about three weeks, on January 18, 1911, it issued a verdict, sentencing 24 people to death for "grand treason" and two others to imprisonment for violating the Regulations on the Punishment of Explosives Control. Only about a week after the verdict, Qiushui and 12 others who were sentenced to death were hanged respectively, and the other 12 were commuted to life imprisonment. It is known as the "Great Reverse Event". Postwar studies have shown that this was a state crime in which the ideas of individuals - liberty, equality, fraternity - were tried as crimes and the freedom of the mind was stifled by a structured crime.

The author of this book, Nobuhiro Tanaka, has been on a journey to visit the families and surroundings of the "Great Reverse Event" since around 1979. Those who were forcibly conjoined, although their degrees and ideas were different, were all minorities in the society at that time. They oppose war, advocate not exploiting the way of life of others, care for those who suffer discrimination as religious people, think about how to achieve an equal and free society, and how to deal with the relationship between the state, the emperor and the individual, which is an issue that every living individual cannot avoid. They are people who live in trouble, conflict, and sometimes impatience. These problems, which they discovered under the influence of ideas such as socialism and anarchism, are the subject of literature and thought of the time, the subject of the media of the time, and the problem of today.

The family, the nation, and the world are the aggregation of individuals. As long as individuals have the spirit of independence and freedom, and the sincerity and practice of helping the weak and caring for their neighbors, all people can live a successful community life. Therefore, we human beings must always exert the spirit of independence, autonomy and mutual assistance, and wage a desperate struggle against those who oppose this spirit.

-- Uchiyama Yutong (a monk of the Cao Dong Sect and a victim of the "Great Rebellion")

About the author

Nobuhiro Tanaka (たなかのぶまさ)

He was born in Tokyo in 1941. He worked as a newspaper reporter and later as a nonfiction writer. In 2002, he won the 8th Peace and Mutual Journalists Foundation Award for his book "The People Who Won the Constitution" (Iwata Bookstore). In 2011, he won the 59th Japan Prose Club Award for "The Great Reverse Event". He is also the author of No disguising, No disguising, No Conceiting: Sukko Kono and ITO Noji (Iwata Bookshop) and The Imprisoned Young Monk Minao Setado: The UnCompleted Rebellion and the Modern Age (Iwata Bookshop), The Record: The Showa Emperor (all eight volumes, Greenwind Press), and Disloyalty: The Emperor. 720,000 Words by Tetsuya Kanesaka (Ishasha), What could be sadder than This? (Shichinomori Library), "Portrait of Disobedience" (Shuhua Society) and other works that explore the relationship between individual freedom and the state.

translator

Zang Zhijun

Professor, School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University. His main research interests are comparative political theory, Japanese politics and Administration, etc. He has authored articles such as Government Politics, Cultural Transformation and Social Change, Japanese Politics and Diplomacy in Transformation (co-author), Japanese Civil Service System and Political Process (co-author), and on Japan's Neoconservative centralization Reform and Japanese Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). He has conducted research projects such as "A Study of Japanese Business and Foreign Policy Process after the Cold War" and "Japanese Local Administration Reform and its Implications for China". A History of Early Japanese Socialist Thought.