Communist Youth League (Japan)
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The Communist Youth League was a youth organization in
Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
, active during the 1960s. The organization was the youth wing of the pro-
Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...
Preparatory Communission for a Socialist Reform Movement (a.k.a. the 'Socialist Renovation' group), a group that had broken away from the
Japanese Communist Party The is a left-wing to far-left political party in Japan. With approximately 270,000 members belonging to 18,000 branches, it is one of the largest non-governing communist parties in the world. The party advocates the establishment of a democr ...
in 1961. Many of its members were former Communist Party student activists, who had resigned or been expelled from the party. Local units of the Communist Youth League were formed in
Kyoto Kyoto (; Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in Japan. Located in the Kansai region on the island of Honshu, Kyoto forms a part of the Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kobe. , the ci ...
, Saitama,
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,
Hiroshima is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 1,199,391. The gross domestic product (GDP) in Greater Hiroshima, Hiroshima Urban Employment Area, was US$61.3 billion as of 2010. Kazumi Matsui h ...
,
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and Ibaraki. The Communist Youth League was allied with the
Socialist Student Front Socialism is a left-wing economic philosophy and movement encompassing a range of economic systems characterized by the dominance of social ownership of the means of production as opposed to private ownership. As a term, it describes the econ ...
(the student wing of the
Unified Socialist League The Unified Socialist League ( ja, 統一社会主義リーグ, Tōitsu Shakaishugi Dōmei, abbreviated ''Tōshadō'') was a pro-Soviet communist organization in Japan, founded on May 3, 1962. The Unified Socialist League was led by Kasuga Shōjir ...
), and together they constituted the 'Structural Reform' faction inside
Zengakuren Zengakuren is a league of university student associations founded in 1948 in Japan. The word is an abridgement of which literally means "All-Japan Federation of Student Self-Government Associations." Notable for organizing protests and marches, ...
.
Scalapino, Robert A. Robert Anthony Scalapino (19 October 1919 – 1 November 2011) (Chinese name: 施樂伯) was an American political scientist particularly involved in East Asian studies. He was one of the founders and first chairman of the National Committee on ...

The Japanese Communist Movement, 1920–1966
'. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967. pp. 144-145


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Youth wings of communist parties Youth wings of political parties in Japan {{communist-youth-org-stub