Born in 1903, Kaneko Fumiko lived a life of resistance against authority as both a nihilist and an anarchist. Because her father never filed a birth registration for her, she grew up without official family registry status. At the age of nine, she was taken in by her grandmother, who lived in colonial Korea. There, she suffered abuse akin to slavery; at thirteen, she resolved to commit suicide but ultimately decided against it. After moving to Tokyo to pursue her studies, she met Park Yeol, a nihilist who had come to Japan after participating in the Korean independence movement. Together, they formed the group "Futeisha" to criticize Japanese imperialism and colonial rule. Amid the chaos following the Great Kanto Earthquake, the two were arrested; authorities framed them as the masterminds of a plot to assassinate the Crown Prince with a bomb—a pretext used to justify the massacre of Koreans. Kaneko and Park were charged with "high treason" (a crime involving intent to harm the Emperor or the Imperial family); they confronted the Japanese state and waged an ideological battle. Although both were sentenced to death, their sentences were soon commuted to life imprisonment through a pardon. Kaneko tore up the notice of commutation. While incarcerated in a women's prison, she was pressured to sign a document renouncing her beliefs, but she steadfastly refused. On July 23, 1926, she took her own life by hanging herself in her solitary confinement cell. She was twenty-three years old. This work focuses on the period between her death sentence and her passing—a time previously left largely unchronicled—depicting Kaneko Fumiko's final struggle.