Tetsuzo Fuwa

Tetsuzo Fuwa (不破 哲三, Fuwa Tetsuzō, born 20 January 1930 in Tokyo) is the pen name of Kenjiro Ueda (上田 建二郎, Ueda Kenjirō)[1] a member[2] and the former chair of the Japanese Communist Party.[3] He is a graduate of Tokyo University.[4] He joined the Communist Party in 1947.

Tetsuzo Fuwa
不破 哲三
Chairman of the Japanese Communist Party
In office
31 July 1982 – 29 November 1987
Preceded byKenji Miyamoto
Succeeded byHiromu Murakami
Chairman of the Japanese Communist Party
In office
1989 – 24 November 2000
Preceded byHiromu Murakami
Succeeded byKazuo Shii
Member of the House of Representatives
In office
29 December 1969 – 10 October 2003
ConstituencyTokyo proportional representation block
Personal details
Born (1930-01-26) 26 January 1930
Nakano, Japan
Political partyJapanese Communist Party
OccupationPolitician and staff of the political party

He chaired the Communist Party from 1982 to 1987; and he again held to position from 1989 to 2000. He was president of the Central Committee from 2000 to 2006.

He advocates scientific socialism[5] and believes that socialism should be achieved through stages.[6]

References
  1. "Communist chief draws veil on long Diet career". The Japan Times Online. 15 February 2003. Retrieved 5 April 2020. Fuwa, whose real name is Kenjiro Ueda, joined the party while he was in high school and started working at its headquarters in 1964.
  2. The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979)
  3. "JCP Chief highlights Vietnam's success in 20 years of renewal". 16 January 2017.
  4. Stokes, Henry Scott (14 October 1979). "Japan's Communist Party Has Some Fine Old Italian Styling". The New York Times.
  5. Lev, Michael A. (27 March 1996). "In A Fiercely Capitalist Society, Japan's Communists Gain A Voice".
  6. Tetsuzo, Fuwa (27 August 2002). Lenin and the Market Economy (Speech). Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.


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