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Chichibu Incident (1884)

On the Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia map as “The Chichibu Incident”

Nov 1884 — Silk-farming households ruined by debt during the government’s deflation rise as the “Poor People’s Party”, attack offices and burn loan records. Several thousand take part, the army needs ten days to crush them, and seven leaders are sentenced to death.

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Battle site
Chapter
Meiji Constitution and modernisation (chapter 5 of Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia)
Atlas
Remaking the State: Meiji Japan 1600–1912 and Post-Soviet Russia 1964–2000
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Map showing Chichibu Incident (1884), battle site in Remaking the State: Meiji Japan 1600–1912 and Post-Soviet Russia 1964–2000
BATTLE SITE · REMAKING THE STATE: MEIJI JAPAN 1600–1912 AND POST-SOVIET RUSSIA 1964–2000

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