Noro Eitarō

Noro Eitarō ( Japanese 野 呂 榮太郎 ; born April 30, 1900 in Hokkaidō ; died February 19, 1934 ) was a Japanese Marxist and eminent theoretician of the Communist Party of Japan .

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Noro Eitarō studied at the Keiō University . During his student days he was influenced by Nosaka Sanzo , who later became the leader of the Japanese Communist Party. Noro then studied Japanese economics at the “Research Institute for the Situation of Industrial Workers” (産業 労 働 調査 所, Sangyō Rōdō Chōsajo) and at the “Research Institute for Proletarian Science” (プ ロ レ タ リ ア 科学 研究所, Puroretaria Kagaku Kenkyūjo).

In his writings, Noro emphasized the bourgeois character of the Meiji Restoration in 1868. Later he concentrated on portraying the semi-feudal character of rural society as the determining basis for Japanese capitalism. He gave, together with Yamada Moritarō (1897–1980), Hiranō Yoshitarō (1897–1980) and Ōtsuka Kinnosuke (大 塚 金 之 助; 1892–1977), from 1932 to 1933 "Lectures on the development of Japanese capitalism" (日本 資本主義 発 達 史講座, Nihon Shihonshugi Hattatsu-shi Kōza). This publication led to an ideologically tinged dispute between supporters of the so-called Kōza direction and those of the Rōnō direction.

Noro's main work is the essay collection “The History of the Development of Japanese Capitalism” (日本 資本主義 発 達 史, Nihon Shihonshugi Hattatsu-shi).

Noro was arrested in 1933 and died in police custody.

In January 1974, 40 years after Noro's death, the “Noro Eitarō Prize” was donated by the Japanese Communist Party, which honored achievements in the social sciences and related areas. The award ceremony ended in 2006.

Remarks

1. ↑ The Kōza direction (講座 派) envisaged a two-stage revolution: the abolition of rural semi-feudalism, the imperial system and then the proletarian revolution. The Rōnō direction (労 農 派) aimed for a socialist revolution in one step. Both groups disbanded when members were arrested in 1937 and 1938.

literature

• S. Noma (Ed.): Kōzaha . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 836.
• S. Noma (Ed.): Noro Eitarō . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 1115.

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus, Noro is the family name, Eitarō the first name.