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10 unusual facts about Japanese Communist Party


E. Herbert Norman

Allegations centred on his involvement with various communist societies during his university years, and suspicion of various decisions he helped make during the Japanese occupation, including allowing the Japanese Communist Party to continue while other parties were banned.

Manabu Miyazaki

As a teenager and college student, Miyazaki became involved in the left-wing politics of the Japanese Communist Party but dropped out in 1969 to pursue an underworld life, including running his family's yakuza-connected demolition business.

Mieko Kobayashi

Mieko Kobayashi (小林 美恵子 Kobayashi Mieko) is a Japanese politician and member of the House of Councillors for the Japanese Communist Party.

Night and Fog in Japan

The Zengakuren of this period tried to assert its independence from the Japanese Communist Party, and subsequently fractured into several organizations that continued to retain the name.

At the time, the Zengakuren was dominated by the Japanese Communist Party, represented in the film by the dogmatic leadership of Nakayama.

Politics of Tokyo

After the 2010 and 2013 Councillors elections, Tokyo is represented in the upper house by three Liberal Democrats, two Democrats, two Kōmeitō members, one Communist, one member of Your Party and one independent.

Sendagaya

Japanese Communist Party Central Committee Headquarters (Sendagaya 4-chome)

Takehisa Matsubara

In City Council he has welcomed recommendations from all factions and parties barring only the JCP (Japanese Communist Party) representative.

Tetsuya Shiokawa

Tetsuya Shiokawa (塩川鉄也 Shiokawa Tetsuya) is a Japanese politician and member of the House of Representatives for the Japanese Communist Party.

Yutaka Haniya

Although originally interested in anarchism, in 1931 he joined the Japanese Communist Party, became its Agriculture Director the following year, and was promptly arrested.


1955 System

After World War II, in November 1945, the major prewar conservative, moderate, and progressives had reorganized and the Japanese Communist Party (JCP) had been legalized.

Nuclear power in Japan

Hidekatsu Yoshii, a member of the House of Representatives for Japanese Communist Party and an anti-nuclear campaigner, warned in March and October 2006 about the possibility of the severe damage that might be caused by a tsunami or earthquake.