Yoshio Shiga (communist) explained

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) 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, 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.^[2] Shiga died in 1989.^[3]

Popular culture

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

Works

• Appeal to the People
• Eighteen Years in Prison (Gokuchu juhachi-nen) by Kyuichi Tokuda and Yoshio Shiga. Published by the Japanese Communist Party Party in 1948.

See also

• Japanese dissidence during the Shōwa period

Further reading

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

External links

• Japan: Red Schism . . May 8, 1950 .
• News: Communists Say Blood Will Flow in Japan . . October 4, 1945 .
• News: Military Oblivion Is Japs' Fate . . October 15, 1945.
• News: Japs Tested Bubonic Plague On Yanks, Communist Says . . January 5, 1946.
• News: Communists Out to Get Hirohito . . November 13, 1945.
• News: Exile Hirohito Jap Reds Insist . . November 13, 1945.
• News: Japanese Diet Called Farce . . October 5, 1945.
• Web site: Reds Seek Trial Of Hirohito . . February 3, 1950.
• News: The JCP vs. the Intellectuals: Attempt to Form New Force of Red Splinter Groups Seen . . October 4, 1964.

Notes and References

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