The Suppression of Academic Freedom 1933/1935
During the 1930s, a series of incidents that suppressed academic freedom and the freedom of thought occurred in Japan, driven by struggles over political leadership among Rightist leaders and members of the Imperial Diet. In the Takigawa Incident, many university faculty members of a lost their jobs, including Professors Yukitoki Takigawa and Hiroshi Suekawa. Concerning the dispute over the Emperor－Organ theory, the government supported a nationalistic interpretation of the Emperor as the center of the nation. Due to these incidents, academic freedom and university autonomy receded tremendously.
The Takigawa Incident and the Emperor Organ Theory Incident―
The Suppression of Academic Freedom nineteen thirty-three, nineteenthirty-five
During the nineteen thirty-threes, a series of incidents that suppressed academic freedom and the freedom of thought occurred in Japan, driven by struggles over political leadership among Rightist leaders and members of the Imperial Diet. In the Takigawa Incident, many university faculty members of a lost their jobs, including Professors Yukitoki Takigawa and Hiroshi Suekawa. Concerning the dispute over the Emperor, －Organ theory, the government supported a nationalistic interpretation of the Emperor as the center of the nation. Due to these incidents, academic freedom and university autonomy receded tremendously.
