Yuki Ikeda was a Japanese dissident who joined the

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. Ikeda was involved with the Christian reform movement of Toyohiko Kagawa, and anti-militarist activities. She fled to China, where she married Wataru Kaji. She fled Shanghai along with her husband, Wataru, when the Japanese invaded the city. She worked on the re-education program of Japanese prisoners of war in

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.''From Kona to Yenan: The Political Memoirs of Koji Ariyoshi'', By Koji Ariyoshi, Alice M. Beechert, Edward D. Beechert page 104-105 During the war, Ikeda met journalist Edgar Snow and labor activist Koji Ariyoshi.''From Vagabond to Journalist: Edgar Snow in Asia, 1928-1941'' By Robert M. Farnsworth Page 326 -327

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