| | The Meiji Restoration: A Bourgeois Non-Democratic Revolution |
 | | The document was sent to the Comintern over the signatures of Aoki Kunekichi (pseudonym of Arahata Kanson), as General Secretary of the JCP, and Sakatani Goro (pseudonym of Sakai Toshihiko), as the party’s International Secretary. |
 | | Written using Arahata’s pseudonym of Aoki, this report sought to amplify a report that Sakai, as International Secretary of the JCP, had sent to the Comintern in March 1923. |
 | | When Arahata’s report was written the Communist International was engaged in an international campaign against the French occupation of the Ruhr, which began in January 1923, after Germany defaulted on the reparations payments it was forced to pay France under the terms of the Versailles Treaty. |
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