Yoshio Shiga (communist)

Not to be confused with Yoshio Shiga, a flying ace of the Imperial Japanese Naval Air Service.

Yoshio Shiga
志賀 義雄
Yoshio Shiga (right) with JCP members Kyuichi Tokuda (left) and Sanzō Nosaka (center), circa 1945-1946
Member of the House of Representatives
In office
28 February 1955 – 27 December 1966
Preceded byKiyohide Okano
Succeeded byYasuyuki Okimoto
ConstituencyOsaka 1st
In office
23 January 1949 – 6 June 1950
Preceded byEizo Kawai
Succeeded byWatarō Kanno
ConstituencyOsaka 1st
In office
11 April 1946 – 31 March 1947
Preceded byConstituency established
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
ConstituencyOsaka 1st
Personal details
Born(1901-01-12)12 January 1901
Hagi, Yamaguchi, Japan
Died6 March 1989(1989-03-06) (aged 88)
PartyCommunist
Alma materTokyo Imperial University

Yoshio Shiga (志賀 義雄, Shiga Yoshio; 12 January 1901 – 6 March 1989) was a member of the Japanese Communist Party.[1]

Biography

Yoshio Shiga was born in Hagi, Yamaguchi, on 1 January 1901. His father was one of the first steamship captains in Japan. He was highly interested in the French Revolution in high school and became engaged with socialism after the Rice riots of 1918. After entering a college-preparatory school in 1919, he started to read Marxist literature. He attended Tokyo Imperial University from 1922 to 1925.[2]

After graduating from college Shiga joined Sanzō Nosaka's Industrial Labor Research Institute and enlisted into the army for one year. He was the editor of the magazine Marxism until his arrest in March 1928,[3] remained in prison until 1945.[4] The JCP selected Shiga to be editor-in-chief of the party's newspaper, Akahata.[3]

Shiga served in the House of Representatives from May 1946 to April 1947, and February 1949 to 6 June 1950.[3] During his tenure Shiga was in favour of the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. He was also the leader of those in the JCP who supported the treaty. Because of his support for the treaty, he and Ichizo Suzuki, another member of the JCP who supported the test ban, were expelled from the party. They later established a pro-Soviet Communist Party known as the Voice of Japan.[5] Shiga died in 1989.[4]

Yoshio Shiga appears in the docu-drama "Nihon no Ichiban Nagai Natsu" (“Japan’s Longest Summer”). Shiga is played by Soichiro Tahara.[6]

Works

See also

References

  1. ^ William D. Hoover (2011). Historical Dictionary of Postwar Japan. Scarecrow Pres. p. 278. ISBN 978-0810854604.
  2. ^ Swearingen & Langer 1968, pp. 115–116.
  3. ^ a b c Swearingen & Langer 1968, p. 116.
  4. ^ a b Prof J A A Stockwin (27 August 2003). Dictionary of the Modern Politics of Japan. Routledge. ISBN 0415151708.
  5. ^ Alexander, Robert Jackson (2001). Maoism in the Developed World. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 171. ISBN 978-0-275-96148-0.
  6. ^ "'Nihon no Ichiban Nagai Natsu (Japan's Longest Summer)'/'Ishii Teruo: Eiga Tamashi (Teruo Ishii: The Soul of Film)'". The Japan Times.

Works cited

Further reading

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