Japan People's Liberation League

The anti-war league was formed in April 1944 (Showa 19) during the Second Sino-Japanese War, mainly by Japanese soldiers who had been captured by the Chinese Communist Army. In November 1939, the first anti-war organization by Japanese soldiers, the Japanese Soldiers Awakening League, was formed in the liberated areas of Shanxi Province, and then in July 1940, Nosaka Sanzo and others who had come to Yan'an from Moscow established the Yan'an Branch of the Japanese Anti-War League in China. These two anti-war organizations were merged into the North China Federation of the Japanese Soldiers Anti-War League in China in August 1942, and further developed into the Japanese People's Liberation League with a broader political platform in April 1944. The league was founded with about 300 members, and advocated an end to the war, the overthrow of military dictatorship, and the construction of a new, free and democratic Japan, but by the end of the war it had grown to about 1,000 members.

[Tanaka Yoshiyuki]

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日中戦争下の1944年（昭和19）4月、中国共産党軍の捕虜となった日本兵を主体に結成された反戦同盟。1939年11月、山西省の解放区において日本兵による初めての反戦組織「日本兵士覚醒(かくせい)連盟」が結成され、ついで40年7月には、モスクワから延安に入った野坂参三(さんぞう)らによって「在華日本人反戦同盟延安支部」が創設されていたが、この二つの反戦組織は42年8月「在華日本兵反戦同盟華北連合会」に一本化され、さらに44年4月にはより広い政治綱領をもつ「日本人民解放連盟」に発展した。連盟は、戦争終結、軍部独裁の打倒、自由・民主の新日本建設を掲げ、当初は約300人で発足したが、戦争末期には約1000人を擁するまでになった。

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