    was a radical japanese anarchist. he published numerous anarchist periodicals, helped translate western anarchist essays into japanese for the first time, and created japan's first esperanto school in 1906. he, noe itÅ, and his nephew were murdered in what became known as the amakasu incident. ==biography== ===childhood=== sakae Åsugi was born on january 17, 1885 in marugame, kagawa, according to his autobiography, jijÅden. the Åsugi family registry misrepresents his date of birth by several months, leading to some confusion in other reports. he was the eldest son of kusui yutaka and japanese military captain Åsugi azuma. little is known of his siblings except for the youngest, ayame. she was married to tachibana sÅsaburÅ and moved to portland, oregon; their son munekazu would be the third victim of the amakasu incident in 1923. in his early teens, Åsugi enlisted in cadet school but was a poorly-motivated, rebellious student. he was reprimanded often and nearly expelled more than once. on one occasion it was implied that he took part in illicit homosexual behavior with a younger cadet; he was held in the school stockade for 10 days for this and received 30 days of confinement. later he participated in a knife fight; fighting unarmed, fearing he'd injure his opponent, he received injuries which required a fortnight's hospitalization. after this incident he was finally expelled. ===interest in socialism and christianity=== in 1903 he eventually decided to attain higher education (comparable to a u.s. college education) in french literature at tokyo school of foreign languages (the present-day tokyo university of foreign studies), with the encouragement of a childhood friend, rei, advice from an associate of his father, lieutenant morioka, and the blessings of his parents. while in school he experienced independent living for the first time and began associations that would last years and lead to his experimental phase in christianity and socialism. he graduated from the school in 1905. after his mother's death he became depressed and redirected his energies into his studies. he began to read large numbers of books--only a handful of which he counted as having made an impression on him later in life--primarily works by gorky, turgenev, tolstoy, and dostoevsky. he later wrote that he'd been most influenced by oka asjirÅ's discourse on evolution: my interest in natural science
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