Tokuda Kyūichi

Tokuda Kyūichi

Tokuda Kyuichi ( Japanese 徳田球一 ; born 12. September 1894 in Nago ( Okinawa Prefecture ); died 14. October 1953 ) was a Japanese Marxist politician.

life and work

Tokuda Kyūichi finished his studies at Nihon University in 1920 . In the same year he joined the socialist study group "Shakaishugi dōmei" (社会主義 同盟). In 1922 he took part in the "Far Eastern People's Conference" which took place from January to February in Moscow under the direction of Comintern . Upon return, Tokuda helped found the Japanese Communist Party .

Soon after Tokuda had run unsuccessfully for the "Workers and Peasants Party" (労 働 農民 党, Rōdō Nōmin-tō) in the Reichstag elections in February 1928, he was arrested as part of the purge of March 15 . Together with Shiga Yoshino and others, he remained in prison until October 1945.

At the end of 1945 Tokuda became general secretary of the newly formed Communist Party and was elected to the lower house for three terms from 1946. When the American occupation forces took measures against communists, who went down in history as the Red Purge, in 1950 , Tokuda persuaded his party to use violent tactics. He himself went underground and died in Beijing in 1956.

literature

• S. Noma (Ed.): Tokuda Kyūichi . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 1301.

Web links

Commons : Kyūichi Tokuda  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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