Shigeo Kamiyama

Shigeo Kamiyama (神山 茂夫, Kamiyama Shigeo) (1 February 1905 – 8 July 1974) was a Japanese communist. He was born in 1905 in Shimonoseki. In 1928, he joined the Japanese Communist Party.[1]

On 1 May 1941, he was arrested as the leader of the Communist Party Rebuilding Committee. He was imprisoned in Sugamo prison where he met Hotsumi Ozaki.[2]

Kamiyama remained in jail until 1945. After the war, he was active in the Japanese Communist Party.[1]

See also
  • "4 JAPANESE REDS PLAN NEW GROUP - nytimes". New York Times. 1964-10-04.

References
  1. George M. Beckmann, and Genji Okubo (1969). The Japanese Communist Party 1922-1945. Stanford University Press. p. 367
  2. Johnson, Chalmers. An Instance of Treason Ozaki Hotsumi and the Sorge Spy Ring. Stanford CA: Stanford University Press. p. 203
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