Word: okano
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Against Capitalism. Shortly after the Alliance was organized, Okano made a trip to Moscow. When he returned to Yenan. the Alliance published a manifesto ("Anti-War Call to the Japanese People") expounding its program...
Last summer Okano's Liberation Alliance numbered some 300 members, most of them Japanese soldiers captured by the Chinese Communists. The rest, were Japanese Army deserters or Japanese living in China...
Like the Free Germany Committee, the Alliance conducted highly organized propaganda among the prisoners. Okano had boasted that Japanese prisoners are "rather susceptible to it, provided it is cleverly presented." Some joined the Yenan partisans. Others were allowed to return to the Japanese lines; often they rejoined the partisans, bringing along some friends...
...capitalism and the 'gigantic trusts' which it declared responsible for the war. . . . It demanded the creation of a 'popular government,' a formula suitable to cover very diverse things. Still more significant is the fact that the manifesto does not even mention the Mikado.. . ." Explained Okano: Communists are opposed to monarchy, but the Alliance embraces people of various viewpoints; therefore the overthrow of the Emperor was not urged...
Said Nicolaevsky: "The participation of both Okano and Ozaki in the Alliance proves Stalin's willingness to avail himself of every Japanese supporter of an agreement with Russia. The silence about the Mikado shows that no special importance is attributed to the problem of monarchy. . . . The Alliance's basic line . . . consists in forming Japanese cadres ready to support Stalin's Eastern policy, and in averting . . . British and American predominance in China after...