Shigeo Kamiyama

Shigeo Kamiyama (神山茂夫, Kamiyama Shigeo) was a Japanese communist. He was born in 1905 in Shimonoseki. In 1928, he joined the Japanese Communist Party.^[1]

On May 1, 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]

See also

Japanese dissidence during the Shōwa period

External links

"4 JAPANESE REDS PLAN NEW GROUP - nytimes". New York Times. 1964-10-04.

References

1 2 George M. Beckmann, and Genji Okubo (1969). The Japanese Communist Party 1922-1945. Stanford University Press. p. 367
↑ Johnson, Chalmers. An Instance of Treason Ozaki Hotsumi and the Sorge Spy Ring. Stanford CA: Stanford University Press. p. 203

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