Word: nozaka
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last year the old leaders began creeping back from Red China. Sanzo Nozaka returned, declared himself successor to Party Secretary Kyuichi Tokuda, who had died in Peking in 1953. Nozaka lost no time in cutting Shida down to size. "There has been ultra-leftist adventurism," he cried, and prescribed a policy of nonviolence and a popular front with the Socialists. Suddenly Shida disappeared. For nearly nine months nothing more was heard...
...somniferous spell of Marxist platitudes when the chairman of the meeting suddenly barked: "We have an important announcement to make . . ." Before he could finish it, three men in light grey summer suits, Panama hats in hand, walked briskly down the aisle toward the rostrum. The crowd recognized Sanzo Nozaka, who is Japan's No. 1 Communist since the death of Kyuichi Tokuda (TIME, Aug. 8), and two of his henchmen. Looking like a dapper but tired businessman, Nozaka approached the microphone, told the audience that after five years underground he had come back to take up his duties...
...sense from long years of experience. The place is swept clean, but I had no time to prepare tea." Other raids-at a greengrocer's home in Shimizu, a metal shop in Osaka-led to the arrest of seven more, leaving 19 Red fugitives, including top dog Sanzo Nozaka, still at large...
...worst blow to Japanese Communists came from within, when the Cominform publicly blasted Party Strategist Sanzo Nozaka, a Popular Front advocate, for not using more "revolutionary" methods. Japanese Politburo Member Yoshio Shiga accused Nozaka of "Titoism," caused a still unhealed intraparty schism...
Last June General MacArthur ordered Nozaka, Shiga and 22 other Red leaders expelled from political life. They went underground. Leaderless, the party rank & file began to drift away...