Safety Preservation Law
The Safety Preservation Law (保安条例 Hoan jōrei) was a Japanese law promulgated on December 25, 1887, and enforced starting the same date. It was designed to suppress the Freedom and People's Rights Movement and was the last and most drastic of the several laws enacted after 1875 in order to suppress dissent and contain political opposition to the Meiji oligarchy.
The law imposed stringent restrictions on the press, public speeches, and political meetings. Article Four of the Law authorized the chief of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police, with the approval of the Home Minister, to banish from Tokyo anyone found to be inciting disturbances or scheming to disrupt public order within 7.5 miles of the Imperial Palace (i.e. all of central Tokyo). Such banished persons were forbidden from reentering Tokyo for three years. From December 26 to 28, 570 activists prominent in the Freedom and People's Rights Movement were arrested and expelled from Tokyo. Expelled activists included Ozaki Yukio, Nakae Chōmin, Hoshi Tōru, Hayashi Yūzō, Kishida Toshiko, and Okumura Takie.
The Law was repealed on June 25, 1898, but was soon replaced by the even more stringent Public Order and Police Law of 1900.
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