Shigeo Kamiyama

Shigeo Kamiyama (神山 茂夫, Kamiyama Shigeo) (1 February 1905 – 8 July 1974) was a Japanese communist. He was born in 1905 in Shimonoseki. In 1928, he joined the Japanese Communist Party.[1]

Shigeo Kamiyama
Born(1905-02-01)February 1, 1905
DiedJuly 8, 1974(1974-07-08) (aged 69)

On 1 May 1941, he was arrested as the leader of the Communist Party Rebuilding Committee. He was imprisoned in Sugamo prison where he met Hotsumi Ozaki.[2]

Kamiyama remained in jail until 1945. After the war, he was active in the Japanese Communist Party.[1]

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References

  1. Beckmann, George M.; Okubo, Genji (1969). The Japanese Communist Party 1922-1945. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. p. 367. OCLC 651360309.
  2. Johnson, Chalmers A. (1990). An Instance of Treason: Ozaki Hotsumi and the Sorge Spy Ring (Expanded ed.). Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. p. 203. ISBN 978-0-8047-1767-0.
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