Inomata Tsunao

Economist. Born in Niigata City on April 23, 1889. Graduated from the School of Political Science and Economics at Waseda University, he went on to study economics at the universities of Wisconsin, Chicago, and Columbia in the United States. While in the United States, he joined the Japanese Socialists in America, organized by Katayama Sen. Returning to Japan in 1921 (Taisho 10), he became a lecturer at Waseda University. He joined the Japanese Communist Party, which was formed in 1922, but was arrested in the First Communist Party Incident in 1923 and expelled from Waseda. He did not take part in the reconstruction of the Communist Party, but published papers and books that were at odds with the Communist Party's revolutionary strategy and analysis of the current situation, and in December 1927 (Showa 2), he founded the magazine Labor and Farmers with Yamakawa Hitoshi and others, and continued to be active in the intellectual circles as one of the central figures of the labor-farmer faction. He wrote many books, including "Finance Capital" (1925), "Modern Japanese Studies" (1929), "The Economics of Money" (1932), and "An Introduction to Rural Problems" (1937), and played a major role in popularizing Marxist economics and pioneering Marxist analysis of Japanese politics and economics.

He was arrested in 1962 in connection with the Popular Front Incident, and in 1964 the execution of his sentence was suspended due to illness, but he died of his illness on January 19, 1942 (Showa 17).

[Harunari Yamazaki]

"Inomata Tsunao Research Group, ed. and published 'Inomata Tsunao Research', issues 1-16 (1970-74)"

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経済学者。明治22年4月23日新潟市に生まれる。早稲田(わせだ)大学政経学部を卒業、さらにアメリカのウィスコンシン、シカゴ、コロンビアの諸大学で経済学を学ぶ。在米中、片山潜(せん)の組織した「在米日本人社会主義者団」に加入。1921年（大正10）帰国して早大講師となる。22年結成の日本共産党に参加、23年の第一次共産党事件で検挙され、早大を追われた。共産党の再建には加わらず、共産党の革命戦略論や現状分析とは対立する論文、著作を発表し、27年（昭和2）12月には山川均(ひとし)などと雑誌『労農』を創刊、労農派の中心人物の一人として論壇で活躍を続けた。『金融資本論』（1925）、『現代日本研究』（1929）、『金の経済学』（1932）、『農村問題入門』（1937）ほか数多くの著作があり、マルクス経済学の普及と日本の政治、経済のマルクス主義的分析の開拓に果たした役割は大きい。

　37年に人民戦線事件で検挙され、39年には病気のため、刑の執行を停止されたが、病いえず42年（昭和17）1月19日没した。

［山崎春成］

『猪俣津南雄研究会編・刊『猪俣津南雄研究』1～16号（1970～74）』

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