Background
Akamatsu Isamu was born in 1910 in Hyogo Prefecture.
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Akamatsu Isamu
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Education
He had taken part in trade union movement since his youth. He was clerk of the Labor-Farmers’ Party (now defunct) and central executive committee member of the Japan Proletariats' Party.
Career
He was arrested in 1937 on charge of violation of the Public Security Maintenance Law and was in prison from that year to 1941. After the end of the World War II, he became secretary-general of the Aichi Prefectural Chapter of the Japan Socialist Party, and later became director of the information and research department of the party’s central hqs. He was returned to the House of Repre-sentatives in the 1946 general election, and had since been returned to the Lower House six times. He headed a group of Japanese Socialists sent to Rome to attend the 2nd Socialist International convention (1952).
