[4] The declared aims of the organisation were the withdrawal of Japanese troops from all occupied territories, the overthrow of the statist militarist system in the Empire of Japan and the establishment of a "democratic people's government".

[5] Mao Zedong, Zhu De, Nosaka (under the name Susumu Okano), and other CCP leaders participated in the inaugural assembly of the Emancipation League.

The Emancipation League had a three-point program: "opposition to the war, the overthrow of the militarists, and the establishment of a democratic, people's government in postwar Japan".

The Emancipation League was open to people with any kinds of political beliefs, requiring only the "agreement with the basic program advocating the end of the war, the overthrow of the militarists and the establishment of a democratic Japan with improved conditions for peasants, industrial laborers and small business men" of its members.

[10] On July 12, 1944, it was reported that some league members were already serving in the Eighth Route Army as psychological warfare staff and instructors in Japanese methods of war.

[8] The Japanese Army allegedly sent half a dozen assassins into the Yenan area to poison Okano and disrupt the activities of the Emancipation League.