This list contains the names of Japanese dissidents in Imperial Japan, which lasted from the Meiji period (1868-1912) to the end of World War II. The list includes, but not limited to, communists, anarchists, and religious dissidents.
A Kazuo Aoyama, a communist
D Taisen Deshimaru, a buddhist teacher
H Teru Hasegawa, an esperantist
I Shoichi Ichikawa, a Japanese Communist Party member Yuki Ikeda Ayako Ishigaki, a journalist Noe Itō
K Wataru Kaji, a writer Shigeo Kamiyama, a Japanese Communist Party member Fumiko Kaneko, a pre-Shōwa period assassin Sen Katayama, founding member of the Japanese Communist Party Takiji Kobayashi, an author of proletarian literature Shūsui Kōtoku, a Japanese anarchist Tokuda Kyuichi
M Kenji Miyamoto, Japanese Communist Party member
N Daisuke Nanba, pre-Shōwa period assassin Eitaro Noro, Japanese Communist Party member Sanzō Nosaka, Japanese Communist Party leader
O George Ohsawa, pacifist Shigeki Oka, socialist Sakae Ōsugi, anarchist
S Yoshio Shiga
T Makoto Tomioka, anarchist
Y Mitsu Yashima, artist, and wife of Taro Yashima Taro Yashima, artist
See also Japanese dissidence during the Shōwa period