Takakura Teru

Takakura Teru (Japanese: 高倉 輝豊, Hepburn: Takakura Teru, born Takakura Terutaka, Japanese: 高倉 輝豊; April 14, 1891 – April 2, 1986) was a Japanese novelist, playwright, politician and central committee member of the Japanese Communist Party from 1950 to 1951.

In this Japanese name, the family name is Takakura.

Takakura Teru
高倉 輝
Born
高倉 輝豊

(1891-04-14)April 14, 1891
Takaoka, Japan
DiedApril 2, 1986(1986-04-02) (aged 94)
NationalityJapan
Alma materKyoto Imperial University
Political partyJapanese Communist Party
Writing career
LanguageJapanese
Period
  • Taishō literature
  • Shōwa literature
Literary movementProletarian literature

Takakura graduated from Kyoto Imperial University and was a left-wing thinker of the Kyoto School.[1] He was arrested several times under the Public Security Preservation Laws prior to the Allied occupation of Japan. In 1945 he fled parole to attend a funeral and was arrested along with Miki Kiyoshi, who he had gone to for clothes and money.[2][3] This would inevitably lead to Miki's death in prison. Takakura however, following his release at the hands of the Allied Occupation, went on to become a politician for the Japanese Communist Party in the early 1950s.

References
  1. Dilworth, David A.; Viglielmo, Valdo H., eds. (1998). Sourcebook for Modern Japanese Philosophy: Selected Documents. with Agustin Jacinto Zavala. Greenwood Press. p. 292. ISBN 0-313-27433-9.
  2. Fujio, Ogino (2000). Shisōkenji (1st ed.). Iwanami Shoten. p. 184. ISBN 978-4-00-430689-4.
  3. Tobata, Seiichi (1968). そとから見た三木さん. Miki Kiyoshi Zenshū. 19 (2nd ed.). Iwanami Shoten. p. 3.

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