Yoshio Shiga (communist)

Not to be confused with Yoshio Shiga, a flying ace of the Imperial Japanese Naval Air Service.
Yoshio Shiga (Right) with JCP members Tokuda Kyuichi (Left) and Sanzo Nosaka (Center). (During 1945-1946)

Yoshio Shiga (志賀 義雄, Shiga Yoshio, 12 January 1901 – 6 March 1989) was a member of the Japanese Communist Party.[1]

Biography

Yoshio Shiga was born in Yamaguchi in 1901. He became involved with left-wing movements while attending Tokyo Imperial University. He was arrested in 1928 and remained in prison until 1945. He was editor of the Red Flag (Akahata)[2] and a member of the House of Representatives. During his time in the National Diet, Shiga was in favour of the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. He was also the leader of those in the JCP who supported the treaty. Because of his support for the treaty, he and Ichizo Suzuki [jp], another member of the JCP who supported the test ban, were expelled from the party. They later established a pro-Soviet Communist Party known as the Voice of Japan.[3] Shiga died in 1989.[2]

Yoshio Shiga appears in the docu-drama "Nihon no Ichiban Nagai Natsu" (“Japan’s Longest Summer”). Shiga is played by Soichiro Tahara.[4]

Works

See also

Further reading

  • Gayn, Mark (Dec 15, 1989). Japan Diary. Tuttle Publishing.
  • William D. Hoover (2011). Historical Dictionary of Postwar Japan. Scarecrow Pres.

References

  1. ^ William D. Hoover (2011). Historical Dictionary of Postwar Japan. Scarecrow Pres. p. 278. ISBN 978-0810854604.
  2. ^ a b Prof J A A Stockwin (Aug 27, 2003). Dictionary of the Modern Politics of Japan. Routledge. ISBN 0415151708.
  3. ^ Alexander, Robert Jackson (2001). Maoism in the Developed World. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 171. ISBN 978-0-275-96148-0.
  4. ^ "'Nihon no Ichiban Nagai Natsu (Japan's Longest Summer)'/'Ishii Teruo: Eiga Tamashi (Teruo Ishii: The Soul of Film)'". The Japan Times.