Education
Born in 1905 in Shimonoseki, in 1924, he graduated from Tokyo Seijo Higher School.
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Shigeo Kamiyama
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Career
He entered the labor movement, and joined the Kanto Free Trade Union. In 1928, he joined the Japanese Communist Party. He was arrested multiple times during the prewar period.
On May 1, 1941, he was arrested as the leader of the Communist Party Rebuilding Committee in the Tokyo area, and was held throughout the war in Sugamo prison.
During his time in prison, he met fellow inmate Hotsumi Ozaki, a Japanese who spied for the Soviets. According to Kamiyama, certain guards considered them the two biggest criminals in Sugamo: the one a Communist spy and the other the last leader of the JCP. Kamiyama wrote an article dealing with Ozaki"s life in the November 9, 1946 issue of the Red Flag.
Kamiyama remained in jail until 1945. He was active in the postwar Japanese Communist Party.
He served as central committee member and chairman of labor union and peasants department.
He was elected to the Diet in 1949. He was expelled from the party in 1950 and readmitted in 1958. In 1964, Kamiyama was ousted from the party"s Central Committee.
Along with Yoshio Shiga, Ichizo Suzuki, Shigeharu Nakano, and Shojiro Kasuga, he set up a splinter political group.
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Political Party
Communist Party