Nosaka Sanzo

Nosaka Sanzo

Nosaka Sanzō ( Japanese 野 坂 参 三 ) also known under the pseudonym Okano Susumu (born March 30, 1892 in Hagi ; † November 14, 1993 ) was a Japanese politician and co-founder of the Communist Party of Japan .

Life

Nosaka Sanzō studied at the Keiō University in Tokyo . He was unionized and worked at the headquarters of the left unions. He was married to Nosaka Ryou (aka Sian Kim, 1886 - 1971 ). In 1922 he was a co-founder of the Communist Party of Japan (JKP).

In April 1931 he was invited to the Soviet Union and traveled to Moscow . At that time he was the only Japanese leader in Moscow and the Comintern . The two Japanese leaders Sen Katayama and Yamamoto Kenzō had previously fallen in the reputation of the Soviet leadership, which was partly due to the fact that Nosaka had denounced Yamamoto. He had lost confidence in his friend after a series of incidents in Japan in which Yamamoto was the only JKP leader not to be arrested. After Katayama died in 1933 after a serious illness, Nosaka traveled to the USA . He hoped to find a new way back to Japan after the route through Germany was interrupted by the seizure of power by Adolf Hitler .

On March 31, 1938 , his wife Ryou Nosaka was expelled from the CPSU because she was said to have had contacts in the imperialist USA. She had kept in touch with her husband by post. In August 1938, Sanzō Nosaka came back to Japan from the USA.

Sanzō Nosaka spoke out very directly for Chinese communism and Mao Zedong . In other respects he was also very active politically and often argued with the Prime Minister of Japan Yoshida Shigeru . During the Second Sino-Japanese War , Nosaka lived in the base Yan'an ( Province : Shaanxi ) of the Chinese Red Army . There he was chairman of the Japanese People's Emancipation League (JPEL). The KPEL was involved in the re-education of Japanese prisoners of war and distributed Maoist propaganda .

Nosaka Sanzo was expelled from the JKP in 1992, shortly after his 100th birthday, when it became known that he had denounced his friend Yamamoto Kenzo, the representative for the Communist Union International ( Profintern ) in Moscow, as a "suspect character", which in the end had been denounced led to the shooting of Yamamoto.

Nosaka Sanzo left eight volume memoirs about his pre-war activities. The description of his life overseas is considered exaggerated and falsified.

Quotes

• Find God. God is the father of humanity.

Works

• Sanzō Nosaka: Fuusetsu na Ayumi (My way of the winds and the snow) . Tokyo 1971-89

literature

• Haruki Wada: Rekishi na nakano Nosaka Sanzo (Sanzo Nakano in the story) . Tokyo 1995.
• Akira Kato / Shunichi Kobayashi: Yamino Otoko: Nosaka Sanzo na Hyakunen (The Man of Darkness: A Hundred Years of Sanzo Nosaka) . Tokyo 1993

Web links

• History of the circumstances surrounding the betrayal of Kenzo Yamamoto (in German )
• Collection of quotes from Sanzō Nosaka (in English )
• Collection of scientific publications on Sanzō Nosaka (in Japanese )

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