Kawai Yoshitora

Yoshitora Kawai (1902 – 1923) was an active Japanese socialist and communist involved with many Tokyo-based political groups.

Yoshitora Kawai
BornJuly 18, 1902
Japan
DiedSeptember 4, 1923

He attended Honzan hospital's nurse training school, but moved to Tokyo's Kameido district in September 1920 after being exposed to socialism from a professor, Oka Sensei. He was a member of Gyōminkai (Enlightened People's Society), a communist study group, and joined the Nankatsu Labor Union alongside Tanno Setsu. In March 1923, Kawai created the Tokyo Communist Youth League, the first instance of a group openly labeling themselves as Communists.[1] During the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, Kawai was reported as having rescued three children who had been trapped under a collapsed house.[2] Amidst the chaos of the earthquake's aftermath, he was captured on September 2, 1923, and a few days later, was killed by police in prison during the Kameido Incident. [1] [3]

References
  1. Hane, Mikiso (1988). Reflections on the Way to the Gallows. Pantheon Books. ISBN 978-0520084216.
  2. "Hidden history behind 1923 quake: communists killed by power". Japan Press Weekly. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
  3. Andrew Gordon (Jan 21, 1991). Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan. University of California Press.
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