Shigeo Kamiyama Explained

Shigeo Kamiyama
Birth Date:	1 February 1905

(1 February 1905 – 8 July 1974) was a Japanese communist. He was born in 1905 in Shimonoseki. In 1928, he joined the Japanese Communist Party.^[1]

On 1 May 1941, he was arrested as the leader of the Communist Party Rebuilding Committee. He was imprisoned in Sugamo prison where he met Hotsumi Ozaki.^[2]

Kamiyama remained in jail until 1945. After the war, he was active in the Japanese Communist Party.^[1]

See also

• Japanese dissidence during the Shōwa period

External links

• Web site: 4 JAPANESE REDS PLAN NEW GROUP - nytimes . New York Times. 1964-10-04.

Notes and References

1. Book: Beckmann. George M.. The Japanese Communist Party 1922-1945. Okubo. Genji. Stanford University Press. 1969. Stanford, CA. 367. 651360309.
2. Book: Johnson, Chalmers A.. An Instance of Treason: Ozaki Hotsumi and the Sorge Spy Ring. Stanford University Press. 1990. 978-0-8047-1767-0. Expanded. Stanford, CA. 203.