Kenji Miyamoto (politician)

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Kenji Miyamoto (宮本 顕治, Miyamoto Kenji, 17 October 1908 – 18 July 2007) was a Japanese

Miyamoto was born in Shimata-mura (島田村), Yamaguchi in 1908. He was originally from Yamaguchi Prefecture.^[2] Miyamoto attended and graduated from

Miyamoto became head of the JCP in 1958.[1] That same year, Miyamoto publicly renounced his previous calls for a violent communist revolution in Japan.^[1] Instead, he and the JCP now switched to a peaceful stance, which Miyamoto called "smiling communism".

Miyamoto was known for his independent views. He visited China in 1966 and called the Cultural Revolution "abnormal."^[1] He was noted for his outspoken condemnation of the 1968 Soviet Union invasion of Czechoslovakia.^[1] Miyamoto also opposed the close alliance between Japan and the United States.^[1] Following the fall of communism in eastern Europe, Miyamoto stated that it was a defeat for Stalinism and the Soviet-backed governments, but not for socialism.^[1]

Miyamoto stepped down as leader of the JCP in 1977.^[1] He was succeeded as presidium chairman by Tetsuzo Fuwa in 1982.^[2] Miyamoto remained active within the JCP and continued to hold the post of chairman until his official retirement in September 1997.^[2] He held an honorary position from 1997 until his death in 2007.^[2]

Miyamoto died from emphysema in a Tokyo hospital on 18 July 2007.^[1] He was 98 years old.^[1] Yuriko Miyamoto had died in 1951.^[3]

See also

• Japanese dissidence during the Shōwa period

References