| Peace Preservation Law 治安維持法 | |
|---|---|
 Title page of the Peace Preservation Law, 1925 | |
| National Diet of Japan | |
| Citation | Imperial Ordinance No. 46 of 1925 |
| Territorial extent | Empire of Japan |
| Passed by | National Diet of Japan |
| Passed | April 22, 1925 |
| Repealed | October 15, 1945 |
| Status: Repealed | |
The Peace Preservation Law (治安維持法, Chian iji hō) was a Japanese law enacted on April 22, 1925, with the aim of allowing the Special Higher Police to more effectively suppress alleged socialists and communists.[1] In addition to criminalizing forming an association with the aim of altering the kokutai ("national essence") of Japan, the law also explicitly criminalized criticism of the system of private property and became the centerpiece of a broad apparatus of thought control in Imperial Japan. Altogether, more than 70,000 people were arrested under the provisions of the law until its repeal by Allied occupation authorities at the end of World War II.
- ^ McClain, James L. (2002). Japan: A Modern History (1st ed.). New York: W. W. Norton & Company. p. 390. ISBN 0393041565.