Sano Manabu

Sano Manabu

1933 newspaper report on the revocation of Sano and Nabeyama

Sano Manabu ( Japanese 佐野 学 ; born February 22, 1892 in Ōita Prefecture ; died March 9, 1953 ) was a Japanese economist and communist.

Life

Sano Manabu began as a student at Tokyo University to be interested in the socialist movement and participated in the founding of the student group "Association of the New" ( 新人 会 , Shinjin-kai ). In 1920 he received a position as a lecturer at Waseda University . From 1921 he was active in the labor movement ( 労 働 総 同盟 , Rōdō sōdōmei ), in 1922 he joined the newly founded Communist Party of Japan, which sent him to the Soviet Union as a member of the Communist International the following year . After a time in Shanghai , Sano returned in 1925 and became chairman of the domestic Central Committee in 1927. In 1928 he went back to the Soviet Union, shortly before the first mass arrest on March 15 by suspected communists. Sano was arrested by the Japanese authorities in Shanghai in June 1929 and sentenced to life imprisonment by the Tokyo Court of Justice.

In June 1933 he broke up, together with Nabeyama Sadachika ( 鍋 山 貞 親 , 1901-1979), publicly from communism, whereupon a number of fellow campaigners decided on the same, Tenkō called, procedure. His sentence was reduced to 15 years, he was released in 1943 and worked for the Japanese authorities in Beijing . After the end of the Pacific War , he returned to Waseda University as a professor. He founded the "Japan Political and Economic Research Center" and ran for the Reichstag in 1947, albeit unsuccessfully.

Sano left behind a large number of writings, including the six-volume complete edition Sano Manabu-shū ( 佐野 学 集 ) from 1930 and the five-volume Sano Manabu Chosakushū ( 佐野 学 著作 集 ) from 1957 to 1958.

Remarks

1. ↑ On March 15, 1928, about 1,600 people were arrested who were suspected of being communists. The event went down in Japanese history as the "March 15th Incident" ( 三 ・ 十五 事件 , San jūgo jiken). Around 500 of those arrested were convicted and a number of organizations were banned.

literature

• S. Noma (Ed.): Sano Manabu. In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X , pp. 608-609.
• Janet Hunter: Sano Manabu. In: Concise Dictionary of Modern Japanese History. Kodansha International, 1984, ISBN 4-7700-1193-8 .

Web links

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Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Sano is the family name, Manabu the first name.