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Ozaki Hotsumi, April 29, 1901 - November 7, 1944, is a Japanese critic, journalist, communist. Asahi Shimbun newspaper reporter, cabinet commission, The South Manchuria Railway Co., Ltd As a temporary staff of the research department.
As a brain of the Konoe Fumimaro administration, he has an important position in the political world and the speech circle, has a unique relationship with the military, from the Second Sino-Japanese War until just before the war in the Pacific War (Great East Asa War), he contacted the top layer / center of Politics, it affected the state administration.
As a communist and revolutionary, he joined the intelligence organization "Sorge Intelligence Service" led by Richard Sorge and acted as a spy, eventually found as a Sorge incident in 1941, and as a member of the mastermind a trial was held It was sentenced to death.
A lifetime
Communist sympathizer
Born in Shirakawa Town, Kamo-gun, Gifu Prefecture as a child of father Hotsuma, Sports Hochi reporter.
Five months later, his father was invited by Taiwan Governor General Goto Shinpei, and since it arrived as Taiwan daily newspaper Kanbun section chief editor, he grow up in Taiwan.
After Taipei Junior High School, First Higher School, Japan, he graduated from Tokyo Imperial University Law Faculty, and he studied at the graduate school for a year.
Before and after this became a communist sympathizer, but did not engage in exercise. For example, the Morito incident occurred during the First Higher School, Japan era, but he has not participated in the social movement in particular.
However, at the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923, inspired by the anarchist, Oosugi Sakae, a case in which Ito Noe and Oosugi's six-year-old nephew was murdered by military police, it began socialist research.
Text included Marx's "Capital Theory", Lenin's "Theory of Imperialism", "State and Revolution", and it came to focus on China issues by reading Carl Vogel's "Awakening China" It is from.
In May 1926 he joined the Asahi Shimbun Company in Tokyo and is registered in the social department. There was Shinjiro Tanaka, later cleared for Sorge incident, to join synchronous. At this time it belongs to the socialist study group and the Kanto publication association etc. with the pseudonym "Kusano Genkichi".
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