Education
Yamaga moved to Tokyo, where he studied Esperanto with the historian and noted Esperantis Katsumu Kuroita.
Yamaga moved to Tokyo, where he studied Esperanto with the historian and noted Esperantis Katsumu Kuroita.
Taiji Yamaga was a Japanese anarchist and Esperantist. At age sixteen, Yamaga served as the secretary of Kuroita"s Japan Esperanto Society. Following the High Treason Incident of 1911, Yamaga borrowed a coworker"s copy of Peter Kropotkin"s Conquest of Bread, which greatly influenced him.
That same year, Yamaga was introduced to anarchist Sakae Osugi.
Yamaga became an assistant to anarchist Osugi. At Osugi"s request, Yamaga visited Chinese anarchist Liu Shifu and his comrades in Shanghai.
He met Shifu at there Headquarters, and stayed for several weeks and joined in the group"s activities. Shifu would invite Yamaga to help him publish the journal Minsheng.
Yamaga returned to Japan to help with the publication of the Heimin Shimbun.
Yamaga continued to publish anarchist books, including, in 1915, Kropotkin"s An Appeal to the Young along with Tadashi Aisaka and Shinroku Momose. In 1916, while visiting the home of radical thinker, and fellow Esperantist Ikki Kita, Yamaga met Mika Shigehara, an apprentice in the Kita household. In 1922, he visited Shanghai again to join the Anarchist Federation, and was the only person from Japan to do southern
In 1922, Yamaga was able secure Osugi a false passport with the help of his contacts Ching Mei-chin of the secret Chinese anarchist group the "F.A" and Cheng Meng-hsien.
In August 1927, Yamaga was appointed to teach Esperanto as a faculty lecturer at the newly established National Labor University in Shanghai. Yamaga returned to Japan in December, where he resumed his work on underground publications.
Beginning in 1939, he traveled, living in Shanghai, Kaohsiung, Taipei, and Manila. In Manila, he learned Tagalog and compiled a Japanese-Tagalog dictionary.
He returned in Kyoto in 1946.
In 1960, Yamaga attended the tenth international meeting of the War Resisters" International in India. Afterwards, he suffered a stroke. In 1962, Yamaga began writing his memoirs, The Twilight Journal.
The Yamaga Manga, an illustrated journal he drew.
He died on December 6, 1970.