Word: nozaka
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nowhere to be seen or heard was the top purgee, Secretary General Kyuichi Tokuda. Equally elusive were the usually vocal Ritsu Ito, ousted Communist theorist and spokesman, and Yoshio Shiga, leading party advocate of violent action, whose "tough" policy had brought on the MacArthur order. From shrewd, slippery Sanzo Nozaka, pre-purge chairman of the Japanese Politburo, came only ironic speculation. Said Nozaka: "Now that I have so much time on my hands ... I may try to become a movie critic. Or else, now that summer is here, perhaps I can start an ice candy [Japanese Popsicle] shop...
Unless MacArthur put more heat on, Nozaka and his purged comrades probably would stay out of the ice candy business. Remarked one Tokyoite: "After the Zaibatsu [big capitalists] were purged, they still ran their companies as 'black curtains' [i.e., the men behind the scenes]. I suppose Nozaka and Tokuda will become 'red curtains...
Tokuda, the party's No. 2 man, supports No. 1 Communist Sanzo Nozaka in his "soft" tactical line. They have cooperated with other parties and rarely attack U.S. occupation policies. This line has been sharply criticized by the Cominform, speaking for the Kremlin...
...dispute came to a head at a recent central committee meeting. Shiga warned against Titoist tendencies in the Japanese party leadership. Nozaka and Tokuda, he charged, showed "sectarian" disregard for criticism, ignored "the great role [of the] Cominform . . . and Soviet Union in the forefront of internationally advancing people's power," and stuck dangerously to outmoded notions of a popular front with bourgeois elements. "The time has come, comrades," exhorted Shiga, "to bend our utmost efforts toward the bolshevization of the party." When Nozaka and Tokuda squelched the memo in which Shiga set forth his views, Shiga let it leak...
...Unless Nozaka has the inclination and power to defy the Kremlin, he will have to give way to Secretary General Kyuichi Tokuda. Among the Communist rank & file, the Cominform blast caused great consternation. Said Yasusuke Sanejima, a printer: "I'm astounded and shocked. I don't know what to think until we receive instructions from the party...