Sen Katayama
Sen Katayama | |
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片山 潜 | |
| Born | Yabuki Sugatarō 26 December 1859 Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, Japan |
| Died | 5 November 1933 (aged 73) |
| Resting place | Kremlin Wall Necropolis, Moscow |
| Education | Oka Juku (preparatory school), Grinnell College, Andover Theological Seminary, Yale Divinity School Maryville College |
| Occupation(s) | Rice farmer, journalist, teacher, printer's apprentice, newspaper editor |
| Known for | Co-founder of the Japanese Communist Party. Early member of the Communist Party USA. |
| Criminal charges | Participation in the 1912 Tokyo Streetcar Strike |
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| Children | 3 children |
| Parent(s) | Kunizo Yabuki, Kichi Yabuki |
Sen Katayama (片山 潜, Katayama Sen; December 26, 1859 – November 5, 1933), born Yabuki Sugataro (藪木 菅太郎, Yabuki Sugatarō), was an early Japanese Marxist political activist and journalist, one of the original members of the American Communist Party and co-founder, in 1922, of the Japanese Communist Party. After 1884, he spent most of his life abroad, especially in the United States and the Soviet Union, where he was very active in the international socialist community, and after 1920, the communist community. Katayama had a weak base inside Japan, and was little known there. However, in the rest of the world, he was widely hailed as a leading spokesman for the Japanese socialist and communist movements.