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Japanese leading communists in the pre and postwar.

Kyuichi Tokuda (1894-1953)
He was in jail from 1928 to 1945 as an illegal activist.
The first General Secretary of the Japanese Communist Party in the postwar.
Escaped from the purge, he died in Beijing, China as an exile in 1953.


Sanzo Nosaka (1892-1993)
During the war, he was in Soviet Union and China to re-educate the captured Japanese soldiers.
Member of the National Diet of Japan (1946-1950 & 1956-1977)
Chairman of the Japanese Communist Party (1958-1982).


Kenji Miyamoto (1908-2007)
He was in jail with suspicion of infighting murder from 1933 to 1945.
General Secretary of the Japanese Communist Party (1958-1970)
Chairman of the Japanese Communist Party (1982-1997)
Member of the National Diet of Japan (1977-1989)

Kenji Miyamoto with Kim Il-sung circa 1966

 
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Japanese Communist Party grew rapidly in the 1950s.
Its radical union activities, especially in the Japan National Railroad, had often paralyzed the Japanese economy and did not cease until as late as 1973 when thousands of ordinary citizens stood up with rioting against them in the major railroad stations in Tokyo.

Re-educated Japanese from Soviet Union circa 1947.
There were more than a million such guys together with from China.


The 33rd Anniversary of JCP in 1955


Tokyo uprises at last in 1973
 
Mitsuru Toyama (1855-1944).
Godfather of the Japanese nationalists' Black Dragon Society, earnest supporter of the independence activists in Asia and a natural enemy of the communists.


Toyama with Chiang Kai-shek in 1927


Toyama with Indian poet Tagore in 1924
 
Thanks. I think it was the era of communists vs nationalists or Soviet (Russia/China) vs Japan in the far east.

Ryoichi Sasagawa (1899-1995)
Boss of the Japanese nationalists next to Godfather.
He worked for CIA in the postwar for sometime but known as a philanthropist to Japanese people.


Sasagawa with Deng Xiaoping in 1987


Yoshio Kodama (1911-1984)
He was a leading political merchant for the Japanese military as a nationalist.
Agent of CIA in the postwar and also worked for Lockheed Corp to let the Japanese government purchase its products.


Kodama with Kishi (Abe's grandfather) circa 1960
 
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