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Tetsuzo Fuwa (不破 哲三, Fuwa Tetsuzō, born 26 January 1930) is the pen name of Kenjiro Ueda (上田 建二郎, Ueda Kenjirō),[1] a member[2] and the former chairman of the Japanese Communist Party.[3] He is a graduate of Tokyo University.[4] He joined the Communist Party in 1947, and was elected to the House of Representatives in 1969.[1]
Tetsuzo Fuwa | |
|---|---|
不破 哲三 | |
 Fuwa in 1967 | |
| Chairman of the Central Committee of the Japanese Communist Party | |
| In office 24 November 2000 – 14 January 2006 | |
| Preceded by | Kenji Miyamoto (1997) |
| Succeeded by | Kazuo Shii (2024) |
| Chairman of the Japanese Communist Party | |
| In office 29 May 1989 – 24 November 2000 | |
| Preceded by | Hiromu Murakami |
| Succeeded by | Kazuo Shii |
| In office 31 July 1982 – 29 November 1987 | |
| Preceded by | Kenji Miyamoto |
| Succeeded by | Hiromu Murakami |
| Member of the House of Representatives | |
| In office 29 December 1969 – 10 October 2003 | |
| Constituency | Tokyo proportional representation block |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 26 January 1930 Nakano, Japan |
| Political party | Japanese Communist Party |
| Occupation | Politician and staff of the political party |
Career
editIn around 1972, Fuwa, replacing certain senior party members, was placed in higher positions within the JCP as part of the JCP's attempts at changing its image and courting younger voters, with the Asahi Shimbun commenting on Fuwa's "eloquency, gentle manner and good looks" in connection to the JCP's electoral strategy. Fuwa was one of the figures in the party who were instrumental in the movement to change the JCP's general image from that of a violent revolutionary group to a reformist and democratic one.[5]
Fuwa was eventually selected to be the chairman of the JCP from 1982 to 1987; he held the position again from 1989 to 2000. He was president of the Central Committee from 2000 to 2006. Fuwa reportedly declined to reattempt election in the 2003 Japanese general election, which ended his career in the Diet that had lasted over 30 years by then.[1] As of the JCP's 28th party congress in January 2020,[update] he remains a member of the party's standing committee and presidium.[6] He stepped down as a member of the party's executive committee as a result of the resignation of his successor as chairman, Kazuo Shii, in 2024.[7]
He is an advocate of scientific socialism[8] and he believes that socialism should be achieved through stages.[9]
References
edit- ^ a b c "Communist chief draws veil on long Diet career". The Japan Times Online. 15 February 2003. Archived from the original on 14 April 2021. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
Fuwa, whose real name is Kenjiro Ueda, joined the party while he was in high school and started working at its headquarters in 1964.
- ^ The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979)
- ^ "JCP Chief highlights Vietnam's success in 20 years of renewal". 16 January 2017.
- ^ Stokes, Henry Scott (14 October 1979). "Japan's Communist Party Has Some Fine Old Italian Styling". The New York Times.
- ^ Dixon, Karl (1972). "The Growth of a "Popular" Japanese Communist Party". Pacific Affairs. 45 (3): 387–402. doi:10.2307/2756509. ISSN 0030-851X.
- ^ "中央委員会の機構と人事（第２８回党大会）" [Structure and personnel of the Central Committee (28th Party Congress)]. Japanese Communist Party (in Japanese). 18 January 2020. Archived from the original on 6 December 2022.
- ^ Kobayashi, Ken. "Shii steps down as Communist Party head after 23 years". Asahi. Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
- ^ Lev, Michael A. (27 March 1996). "In A Fiercely Capitalist Society, Japan's Communists Gain A Voice".
- ^ Tetsuzo, Fuwa (27 August 2002). Lenin and the Market Economy (Speech). Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
External links
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- Breaking Japan's Diplomatic Stalemate
- Three Missing Points in Arguments for Constitutional Revision
- Marxism and the 21st Century World
- 85 Years of the Japanese Communist Party and the Present Stage of Development
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