Ishikawa Sanshirō

After the paper endorsed the idea of war with Russia in 1903, he resigned alongside Kōtoku Shūsui to form the anti-war socialist Heimin-sha group and its associated newspaper, the Heimin Shinbun.

The former, led by figures including Ishikawa, Abe Isoo, and Kinoshita Naoe, formed the Shinkigen-sha group and its associated newspaper, Shinkigen.

[5] The divided anarchist movement reunited once more when Ishikawa agreed, after much persuasion, to support the publication of a new Heimin Shinbun newspaper in 1907, alongside Kōtoku.

[13] As Japan became more militaristic, though, anarchism was repressed using harsher methods, and anarchist organisations essentially collapsed until the end of the Second World War.

He also supported nudism as an expression of freedom, and - unlike his contemporary anarchists - the maintenance of the Japanese Emperor as a symbol of communal affection.