Yoshio Shiga (Communist)

Yoshio Shiga (志賀 義雄, Shiga Yoshio^?, 1901 - 1989) was a member of the Japanese Communist Party.

Yoshio Shiga was born in Yamaguchi in 1901. He became involved with left-wing movements while attending Tokyo Imperial University. He was arrested in 1928. He remained in prison until 1945. He was editor of the Red Flag (Akahata), and got into politics. Shiga died in 1989.

Yoshio Shiga appears in the docu-drama Nihon no Ichiban Nagai Natsu” (“Japan’s Longest Summer”). Shiga is played by Soichiro Tahara.

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