Tomomi Narita

Politician. Born in Kagawa Prefecture. After graduating from the Faculty of Law at Tokyo Imperial University, he joined Mitsui Mining. After the Second World War, he resigned as head of the document section at Mitsui Chemicals and ran for the general election of 1947 (Showa 22) as a member of the Japan Socialist Party. Since then, he has been elected 12 times in a row (Kagawa 1st district). When the party split, he belonged to the left wing, and from 1958 he served as the party's Director of General Affairs, Chairman of the Policy Council, and Director of the Organization Bureau. During the 1960 Security Treaty Crisis, he was active as a left wing theorist. After becoming Secretary-General in 1962, he worked to establish a party-wide system as a mediator between the left and right factions. He served as chairman from October 1968 to December 1977. Although he had no experience in labor or peasant movements, he was skilled in theory and policy, and advocated "opposition cooperation" in the 1970s. He died of acute myeloid leukemia on March 9, 1979, at the age of 66.

[Ara Takashi]

"Tomomi Narita, Records of his Activities" 3 volumes (1981-1982, Tomomi Narita Memorial Publication Society)"

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政治家。香川県生まれ。東京帝国大学法学部卒業後、三井鉱山に入社。第二次世界大戦後、三井化学文書課長を辞職し、1947年（昭和22）総選挙に日本社会党から立候補。以来連続当選12回（香川1区）。党分裂時には左派に属し、1958年以降、党の総務局長、政策審議会長、組織局長を歴任し、60年安保には左派の理論家として活躍した。1962年書記長となってからは左右両派の調停役として挙党体制の確立に努力した。1968年10月から1977年12月まで委員長。労働・農民運動の経験はもたないが、理論・政策能力にたけ、1970年代に「野党共闘」を提唱した。昭和54年3月9日、急性骨髄性白血病のため66歳で死去。

［荒　敬］

『成田知巳著『成田知巳・活動の記録』全3巻（1981～1982・成田知巳追悼刊行会）』

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