Kintenkai

North Korean politician and communist leader of Koreans in Japan. Born in Ulsan, South Gyeongsang Province, his real name was Kim Hak-gi. He came to Japan in 1920 (Taisho 9), and in 1922 he became an executive committee member of the Tokyo Korean Labor League, and in 1925 he organized the Korean Labor Federation in Japan as a member of the Korean Marxist group "Ichigetsu-kai." In 1928 (Showa 3), he became the secretary in charge of the Fourth Korean Communist Party's Japan General Bureau, but was arrested and sentenced to six years in prison. After his release, he joined the Japanese Communist Party and was arrested again. In October 1945, he was released from Fuchu Prison with Tokuda Kyuichi and others, and participated in the founding of the Federation of Koreans in Japan, and was recommended as its highest advisor. He also became a central committee member, member of the Politburo, and head of the Korean department of the re-established Japanese Communist Party, and campaigned around the country to attract large numbers of Koreans to join the party. In September 1949, he fled to North Korea after the dissolution of the Korean Residents in Japan and his removal from public office. After 1956, he held positions in the Workers' Party of Korea, the Supreme People's Assembly, the Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland, and the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland, but his whereabouts have been unknown since the 1970s.

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北朝鮮の政治家、在日朝鮮人の共産主義指導者。慶尚南道(けいしょうなんどう／キョンサンナムド)蔚山(うるさん／ウルサン)出身、本名金鶴儀(きんかくぎ)。1920年（大正9）渡日し、1922年東京朝鮮労働同盟会実行委員、1925年朝鮮人マルクス主義団体「一月会」メンバーとして在日本朝鮮労働総同盟を組織。1928年（昭和3）第四次朝鮮共産党日本総局の責任秘書となったが、検挙され懲役6年。出所後、日本共産党に入党して再検挙された。1945年10月、徳田球一らと府中刑務所から釈放され、在日本朝鮮人連盟創立に参加して最高顧問に推された。また再建日本共産党の中央委員、政治局員、朝鮮人部長に就任し、全国を遊説して朝鮮人を大量入党させた。1949年9月、在日本朝鮮人連盟解散、公職追放処分を受けて、北朝鮮に逃れた。1956年以後、朝鮮労働党、最高人民会議、祖国統一民主主義戦線、祖国平和統一委員会等の役職についたが、1970年代以降消息不明。

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