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

Biographyedit

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]

Popular cultureedit

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

Worksedit

• 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 alsoedit

• Japanese dissidence during the Shōwa period

Further readingedit

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

Referencesedit

External linksedit

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