Kazahaya Yasouji - Kazahaya Yasouji

Japanese: 風早八十二 - かざはややそじ

Born: August 24, 1899 in Okayama
[Died] June 19, 1989. Tokyo social policy scholar, criminal law scholar, and lawyer. Graduated from Tokyo Imperial University in 1922 and became an assistant professor there in the same year. After studying in Europe, he became a professor at Kyushu Imperial University in 1927. He was an active member of the Social Policy Association, but in 1930, his paper critical of the Peace Preservation Law was banned. He was imprisoned twice, in 1933 and 1940. After World War II, he was elected to the House of Representatives as a Communist Party member in 1949. Thereafter, as a lawyer, he defended cases such as the Sunagawa Incident and the Matsukawa Incident. His main works include "History of Japanese Social Policy" (1937).

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Japanese:

[生]1899.8.24. 岡山
[没]1989.6.19. 東京
社会政策学者，刑法学者，弁護士。 1922年東京帝国大学卒業，同年同大学助手。ヨーロッパ留学後，27年九州帝国大学教授。社会政策学会の有力メンバーとして活躍するが，30年治安維持法批判の論文が発禁処分を受ける。 33，40年と2度にわたり投獄。第2次世界大戦後，49年共産党から衆議院議員に当選。以後，弁護士として砂川事件，松川事件などの弁護をつとめる。主著に『日本社会政策史』 (1937) など。

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