Yoshio Shiga (Communist)

Yoshio Shiga (Right) with JCP members Tokuda Kyuichi (Left) and Sanzo Nosaka (Center). (During 1945-1946)

Yoshio Shiga (志賀 義雄, Shiga Yoshio, 1901 - 1989) was a member of the Japanese Communist Party.^[1]

Biography

Yoshio Shiga was born in Yamaguchi in 1901. He became involved with left-wing movements while attending Tokyo Imperial University. He was arrested in 1928. He remained in prison until 1945. He was editor of the Red Flag (Akahata), and got into politics. Shiga died in 1989.^[2]

Popular Culture

Yoshio Shiga appears in the docu-drama Nihon no Ichiban Nagai Natsu” (“Japan’s Longest Summer”). Shiga is played by Soichiro Tahara.^[3]

Works

• Eighteen Years in Prison (Gokuchu juhachi-nen) by Kyuichi Tokuda and Yoshio Shiga. Published by the Japanese Communist Party Party in 1948.

See also

• Japanese dissidence during the Shōwa period

Further reading

• Mark Gayn (Dec 15, 1989). Japan Diary. Tuttle Publishing. 
• William D. Hoover (2011). Historical Dictionary of Postwar Japan. Scarecrow Pres.

References

External links

• Fuchu Prison Exterior Shiga Yoshio previous release 球一 Tokuda 球一 addressed Tokuda (in Japanese). Wazee Digital Commerce. 10 October 1945. 
• "JAPAN: Red Schism". Time. 8 May 1950. 
• "COMMUNISTS SAY BLOOD WILL FLOW IN JAPAN". The Evening Advocate. Oct 4, 1945. 
• "Military Oblivion Is Japs' Fate". The Evening Independent. Oct 15, 1945. 
• "Japs Tested Bubonic Plague On Yanks, Communist Says". The Pittsburgh Press. Jan 5, 1946. 
• "COMMUNISTS OUT TO GET HIROHITO". The Spokesman-Review. Nov 13, 1945. 
• "EXILE HIROHITO JAP REDS INSIST". The Montreal Gazette. Nov 13, 1945. 
• "Japanese Diet Called Farce". The Tuscaloosa News. Oct 5, 1945. 
• "Reds Seek Trial Of Hirohito". The Advertiser. 3 February 1950. 
• "4 JAPANESE REDS PLAN NEW GROUP - nytimes". New York Times. 1964-10-04.