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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...
...Titoism" has spread to Japan. The Cominform Journal last week pronounced anathema on sleepy-eyed Sanzo Nozaka, long considered Japan's No. 1 Red. His sin: he had "uttered bourgeois platitudes," i.e., he had contradicted the customary Communist charge that the U.S. is being imperialistic in Japan, had insisted that the Communist Party could establish a "people's democratic regime" under the U.S. occupation...
...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...
Matsumoto: "Marx, Lenin, Stalin and then Nozaka and Tokuda...