Japanese People's Emancipation League

Not to be confused with Japanese People's Anti-war Alliance.
A former Japanese POW now a Emancipation League member in an Eighth Route Army uniform. (Photo taken by Harrison Forman)
Illustration of Allied countries strangling Hideki Tojo. Flags representing Great Britain, Republic of China, the Japanese People's Emancipation League, and the United States are pictured on the sleeves of each hand.

The Japanese People's Emancipation League (Japanese: Nihon Jinmin Kaiho Renmei)[1] or Emancipation League, was a Japanese resistance organization that operated in communist China during the Second Sino-Japanese War, and World War II.[2]

History

In 1944, the Japanese People's Emancipation League was established in Yan'an.[2] The Emancipation League had a three-point program: "opposition to the war, the overthrow of the militarists, and the establishment of a democratic, people's government in postwar Japan".[2] It was estimated that the Japanese People's Emancipation League had numbered more than 300[3] to 450 members.[1]

Banner

The Japanese People's Emancipation League had a banner.[4]

List of Members

See also

Further reading

External links

References

  1. 1 2 United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary (1956). Scope of Soviet activity in the United States. Parts 50-54. United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. pp. 3502–3505.
  2. 1 2 3 Roth, Andrew (1945). Dilemma in Japan. Little, Brown. pp. 162-188
  3. Life December 18, 1944
  4. "Yanan (China), banners for school and Japanese People's Emancipation League". University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. 1944.
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