Ikuo Oyama

Ikuo Oyama (大山 郁夫, Ōyama Ikuo) was a Japanese socialist politician. He fled Japan in 1933 to the United States, where he got a job at Northwestern University at its library and political science department. He returned to Japan after the end of World War II.[1] In 1951, he was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize. He died of a subdural hematoma while serving as a member of the House of Councillors.

Ikuo Oyama
Born(1889-09-20)September 20, 1889
Hyogo
DiedNovember 30, 1955(1955-11-30) (aged 66)
NationalityJapanese
OccupationPolitician

See also

References

  1. Hoover, William D. Historical Dictionary of Postwar Japan. p. 245.

Further reading

  • Ariyoshi, Koji (2000). From Kona to Yenan: The Political Memoirs of Koji Ariyoshi. University of Hawaii Press.
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