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The Scale and Mechanism of Japanese Victims of Stalinist Terror in the USSR in the 1930s

Research Project

Project/Area Number 07620055
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Politics
Research InstitutionHitotsubashi University

Principal Investigator

KATO Tetsuro  Hitotsubashi University Faculty of Social Sciences Professor, 社会学部, 教授 (30115547)

Project Period (FY) 1995 – 1997
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1997)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000)
Fiscal Year 1997: ¥400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000)
Fiscal Year 1996: ¥400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000)
Fiscal Year 1995: ¥1,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000)
KeywordsUSSR / Stalin / Communism / Nosaka, Sanzo / Yamamoto, Kenzo / Katayama, Sen / Kunizaki, Teido / Japanese Communist Party / 山本瑩蔵 / 片山潜 / 粛清 / 強制収容所 / 旧ソ連 / 日本人粛清 / 1930年代 / 日ソ関係 / 山本懸蔵
Research Abstract

In the 1920s and 1930s, there were about 100 Japanese who dreamed of living in "the paradise of the working class" and went to the USSR.These people were mainly communists, who were oppressed by the imperial police in Japan. There were also ordinary workers, intellectuals and artists who were not communist. They were organized and led by the Japanese Communist Party (the Japanese section of Comintern, the JCP), whose representatives in Moscow in the 1930s were Sen Katayama, Sanzo Nosaka (alias Susumu Okano) and Kenzo Yamamoto (alias Tanaka).
After the death of Sen Katayama in November 1933, Sanzo Nosaka was sent to the USA in early 1934 and Kenzo Yamamoto became the top leader of the Japanese Communist group in the USSR.But Yamamoto was suddenly arrested as an "agent of Japanese Imperialism" by the Soviet secret police (NKVD) in November 1937 and was shot in March 1939. Almost all Japanese living in the USSR at the time faced the same destiny. Theexact number of victims is not yet known … More , but I now estimate there to have been about 86 Japanese. This study tried to trace this tragic history, based on newly found Russian documents. I summarize here the number of Japanese victims of the Stalinist purges in the 1920s and 1930s as presently known.
(1) 32 Japanese victims are confirmed both by Russian documents and Japanese materials.
(2) 15 Japanese were supposedly killed or oppressed according to Soviet documents.
(3) 12 Japanese were definitely in the USSR,but went missing in the 1930s.
(4) Over 20 Japanese were supposedly in the USSR according to Japanese police records, but we have no information on them thereafter.
This list of about 80 Japanese is not yet complete. There might have been more Japanese particularly in the Sakhalin and Vladivostok area as the s Stalinist purge reached its peak in 1937-39. We can find new names when we find new secret documents in Russia, because most Japanese were arrested based on the confessions of other Japanese. They dreamed of a paradise for working people, but their emigration there resulted in death or internment in the gulag. Their history resurfaced only 60 years after their tragic lives ended. Less

Report

(4 results)
  • 1997 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 1996 Annual Research Report
  • 1995 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (26 results)

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All Publications (26 results)

  • [Publications] 加藤 哲郎: "国境を越える夢と逆夢" 月刊百科. 393. 36-40 (1995)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1997 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 加藤 哲郎: "国崎定洞" 思想の科学. 38. 45-49 (1996)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1997 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 加藤 哲郎: "政治と情報-旧ソ連秘密文書の場合" 社会と情報. 創刊号. 6-17 (1996)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1997 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] KATO, Tetsuro: "The Japanese Victims of Stalinist Terror in the USSR" Jahrbuch fur Historische Kommunismusforrchung. 1998(forth coming). 1-11

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1997 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 川上 武・加藤 哲郎: "人間 国崎定洞" 勁草書房, 416 (1995)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1997 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 刊行委員会(加藤 哲郎 他編): "近代日本社会運動史人物大事典" 日外アソシエ-ツ(全5巻中約60項目), (1997)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1997 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] KATO,Tetsuro: "The Dream and Contrary Dream of Crossing Border" Gekkan Hyakka [Encyclopedia Monthyl]. No.39. 36-40 (1995)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1997 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] KATO,Tetsuro: "Kunizaki Teido" Sisou no Kagaku [Science of Thoought]. No.38. 45-49 (1996)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1997 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] KATO,Tetsuro: "Politics and Information : The Case of Soviet Secret Documents" Shakai to Jouhou [Society and Information]. No.1. 6-17 (1996)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1997 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] KATO,Tetsuro: "The Japanese Victims of Stalinist Terror in the USSR" Jahrbuch fur Historische Kommunismusforshung 1998. (forthcoming). 1-11

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1997 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] KATO,Tetsuro and Takeshi Kawakami: Ningen Kunizaki Teido [A Life of Teido Kunizaki]. Keisou-Shobo Publishers, 416 (1995)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1997 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] KATO,Tetsuro et al eds.: Kindai Nippon Shakai Undou-shi Jinbutsu Dai-jiten [The Greater Dictionary of Persons in the Social Movements of Modern Japan] 60 persons in the five Volumes. Nichigai-Associates, (1997)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1997 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 加藤 哲郎: "国境を越える夢と逆夢" 月刊百科. 393. 36-40 (1995)

    • Related Report
      1997 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 加藤 哲郎: "国崎定洞" 思想の科学. 38. 45-49 (1996)

    • Related Report
      1997 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 加藤 哲郎: "政治と情報-旧ソ連秘密文書の場合" 社会と情報. 創刊号. 6-17 (1996)

    • Related Report
      1997 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] KATO,Tetsuro: "The Japanese Victims of Stalinist Terror in the USSR" Jahrbuch fur Historische Kommunismusforschung. forthcoming. (1-11) (1998)

    • Related Report
      1997 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 川上武・加藤哲郎: "人間 国崎定洞" 勁草書店, 416 (1995)

    • Related Report
      1997 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 刊行委員会(加藤哲郎他編): "近代日本社会運動史人物大事典" 日外アソシエ-ツ(全5巻中約60項目), (1997)

    • Related Report
      1997 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 加藤哲郎: "国崎定濶" 『思想の科学』(特集・日本人のソ連体験)3月号. 通巻534号. 45-49 (1996)

    • Related Report
      1996 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 加藤哲郎: "政治と情報-旧ソ連秘密文書の場合" 『社会と情報』(特集・情報概念へのアプローチ). 創刊号. 6-17 (1996)

    • Related Report
      1996 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 加藤哲郎: "ワイマ-ル期在日本人のベルリン社会科学研究会" 『大原社会問題研究所雑誌』. 455号. 1-20 (1996)

    • Related Report
      1996 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 加藤哲郎: "『日本共産党の研究』-金脈批判以上の衝撃" 『文芸春秋・11月臨時増刊号・立花隆のすべて』. 74巻14号. 136-137 (1996)

    • Related Report
      1996 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 編集委員会(加藤哲郎他): "『近代日本社会運動史人物事典』(旧ソ連粛清関係者執筆)(全5巻)" 日外アソシエ-ツ, 5000 (1997)

    • Related Report
      1996 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 加藤 哲郎: "国境を越える夢と逆夢" 月刊百科(1995・7). 第393号. 36-40 (1995)

    • Related Report
      1995 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 加藤 哲郎: "国崎定洞" 思想の科学(1996、3). 通巻534号. 45-49 (1996)

    • Related Report
      1995 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 川上武・加藤哲郎: "人間 国崎定洞" 勁草書房, 408 (1995)

    • Related Report
      1995 Annual Research Report

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