Kazuo Aoyama

Kazuo Aoyama (靑山 和夫 Aoyama Kazuo) was a Japanese communist who joined the Republic of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Aoyama was on good terms with the Kuomintang, despite openly admitting he was a Communist. While Aoyama was in Chongqing, he successfully sold a printing plant to the Office of War Information (OWI).^[1] Aoyama replaced Wataru Kaji as "psychological advisor".^[2]

See also

• Japanese dissidence during the Shōwa period
• Japanese in the Chinese resistance to the Empire of Japan
• Japanese People's Emancipation League

References

1. Ariyoshi, Koji (2000). From Kona to Yenan: The Political Memoirs of Koji Ariyoshi. University of Hawaii Press. pp. 105–108.
2. Roth, Andrew (1945). Dilemma in Japan. Little, Brown. p. 168.

Further reading

• Kuroda, Zenji, (1972). 反戦政略 中国からみた日本戦前・戦中・戦後. Misaki Shobō Publishing. OCLC 44418352.
• 青山和夫, (1957). 謀略熟練工. 妙義出版株式会社.