Japanese Communist Party
Japanese Communist Party 日本共産党 Nihon Kyōsan-tō | |
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| Abbreviation | JCP |
| Chairperson | Tomoko Tamura |
| Secretary-General | Akira Koike |
| Representatives leader | Chizuko Takahashi |
| Councillors leader | Tomoko Kami |
| Founded | 15 July 1922 |
| Headquarters | 4-26-7 Sendagaya, Shibuya, 151-8586 Japan |
| Newspaper | Shimbun Akahata |
| Youth wing | Democratic Youth League of Japan |
| Membership (January 2024) | 250,000 |
| Political orientation |
Communism (de jure) Social democracy (de facto) Revisionism Eurocommunism Reformism |
| Political position | Center to Center-left |
| International affiliation | IMCWP (Non participant) |
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www.jcp.or.jp (Japanese) www.jcp.or.jp/english (English) | |
The Japanese Communist Party (日本共産党, Nihon Kyōsan-tō; abbr. JCP) is a reformist and revisionist Eurocommunist party in Japan which currently stands as the oldest political party in said country.
It originally was a communist party created in consultation with the Comintern in 1922, although many in its leadership had very low understanding of Marxism, instead leaning towards Anarcho-syndicalism and Christian socialism, much like one of its founding members, Sen Katayama, who was a founding member of the Communist Party USA, was a christian socialist.
The Party was made illegal in 1925 and was forced underground. It was legalized again after the end of the Second World War, but after an unexpected success in the 1949 general elections in Japan, the Red Purges were commenced to contain the spread of communism during the advent of the Cold War. The Soviet encouraged the JCP to launch an unsuccessful guerilla campaign in the Japanese countryside. by the 1960s the party took a centrist position on the Sino-Soviet split and banned all pro-Soviet and pro-China members to support multi-party democracy and by the 1976, the party devolved its ideology from Marxism Leninism to Scientific socialism, supported "peaceful revolution" through election, and became more inline with Eurocommunism by the overthrow of the USSR.[1]
Numerous splinters of the organization and new independent factios have arose in the 1960s to early 1970s, especially in relation to the issue of Palestine. Some of these factions include the Japanese Red Army, Japan Communist Party (Marxist–Leninist) and its successor, the Japanese Communist Party (Action Faction).
References
- ↑ Tetsuzo Fuwa How the Japanese Communist Party Developed its Theory of Scientific Socialism jcp.or.jp