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. It was founded in 1969 centered on the Yamaguchi Prefecture Committee of the Japanese Communist Party, under the leadership of those who supported . Currently Maoist, it suffered a schism in 1975 when the Kantō faction of the party embraced the Hoxhaism of the

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while the Yamaguchi faction remained supportive of Maoism. The party reunified around Maoism in 1980.Robert J. Alexander, ''Maoism in the Developed World'', Praeger Publishers, 2001, p. 174.

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