Yoshio Shiga

Politician. Born in Fukuoka Prefecture, he graduated from the First High School and the Faculty of Letters at Tokyo Imperial University. During that time, he participated in the Shinjinkai, founded the Student Union, and joined the Japanese Communist Party in 1923 (Taisho 12). He was arrested in the March 15 Incident (1928) and spent 18 years in prison without changing his views. After being released in October 1945 (Showa 20), he worked hard to rebuild the party and became a member of the Central Committee and Politburo. When the party's central committee split in 1950, he joined the international faction and was an executive member at the 7th and 8th Congresses. He was elected from Osaka in the 1946 general election, and lost his parliamentary qualifications in 1950 due to MacArthur's public office ban, but returned in the 1955 general election. He voted in favor of the Partial Nuclear Arms Ban Treaty in the 1964 Diet session and was expelled for violating party rules. In the same year, he formed the group "Voice of Japan" with Shigeo Kamiyama and others to support the Soviet Communist Party, and became its national chairman. "Voice of Japan" was renamed "Peace and Socialism" in 1977. His books include "Eighteen Years in Prison," "On the State," and "Regarding Japanese Imperialism."

[Shoji Arakawa]

"People Who Create Modern History, Volume 2" by Takahide Nakamura et al. (1971, Mainichi Shimbun) " " Notes on the History of the Japanese Communist Party" by Yoshio Shiga (1978, Tabata Shoten)

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政治家。福岡県に生まれ、一高、東京帝国大学文学部卒業。その間、新人会に参加、学生連合会を創立、1923年（大正12）日本共産党に入党した。三・一五事件（1928）で検挙され非転向で獄中生活18年。1945年（昭和20）10月出所後、党再建に力を尽くし中央委員・政治局員。1950年の党中央分裂に際しては国際派に属し第7回、第8回大会で幹部会員。また1946年総選挙で大阪から選出され、1950年マッカーサーの公職追放令で議員資格を失ったが、1955年総選挙で復帰した。1964年国会の部分核停条約に賛成投票し、党議違反で除名され、同年神山茂夫らとともにソ連共産党を支持する「日本のこえ」を結成し全国委員長となる。「日本のこえ」は1977年「平和と社会主義」と改称した。『獄中十八年』『国家論』『日本帝国主義について』などの著書がある。

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『中村隆英他著『現代史を創る人々　第2巻』（1971・毎日新聞社）』▽『志賀義雄著『日本共産党史覚え書』（1978・田畑書店）』

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