Tetsuzo Fuwa

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Tetsuzo Fuwa

| native_name = {{nobold|不破哲三}}

| native_name_lang = ja

| image = The-Zenei-1967-January-Special-1.png

| caption = Fuwa in 1967

| office = Chairman of the Central Committee of the Japanese Communist Party

| term_start = 24 November 2000

| term_end = 14 January 2006

| predecessor = Kenji Miyamoto (1997)

| successor = Kazuo Shii (2024)

| office1 = Chairman of the Japanese Communist Party

| term_start1 = 29 May 1989

| term_end1 = 24 November 2000

| predecessor1 = Hiromu Murakami

| successor1 = Kazuo Shii

| term_start2 = 31 July 1982

| term_end2 = 29 November 1987

| predecessor2 = Kenji Miyamoto

| successor2 = Hiromu Murakami

| office3 = Member of the House of Representatives

| term_start3 = 29 December 1969

| term_end3 = 10 October 2003

| predecessor3 = Susumu Sano

| successor3 = Multi-member district

| constituency3 = Tokyo 6th (1969–1996)
Tokyo PR (1996–2003)

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1930|1|26|df=y}}

| birth_place = Nakano, Tokyo, Japan

| alma_mater = University of Tokyo

| party = Communist

| occupation = Politician and staff of the political party

}}

{{Nihongo|Tetsuzo Fuwa|不破哲三|Fuwa Tetsuzō|born 26 January 1930}} is the pen name of {{Nihongo|Kenjiro Ueda|上田建二郎|Ueda Kenjirō}},{{cite web |title=Communist chief draws veil on long Diet career |url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2003/02/15/national/communist-chief-draws-veil-on-long-diet-career/ |website=The Japan Times Online |access-date=5 April 2020 |date=15 February 2003 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414042210/https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2003/02/15/national/communist-chief-draws-veil-on-long-diet-career/|archive-date=14 April 2021|url-status=live|quote="Fuwa, whose real name is Kenjiro Ueda, joined the party while he was in high school and started working at its headquarters in 1964."}} a memberThe Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979) and the former chairman of the Japanese Communist Party.{{cite news|url=https://www.vietnambreakingnews.com/2017/01/jcp-chief-highlights-vietnams-success-in-20-years-of-renewal/|title=JCP Chief highlights Vietnam's success in 20 years of renewal|date=16 January 2017}} He is a graduate of Tokyo University.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/10/14/archives/japans-communist-party-has-some-fine-old-italian-styling-support.html|title=Japan's Communist Party Has Some Fine Old Italian Styling|last=Stokes|first=Henry Scott|work=The New York Times|date=14 October 1979}} He joined the Communist Party in 1947, and was elected to the House of Representatives in 1969.

Career

In around 1972, Fuwa, replacing certain senior party members, was placed in higher positions within the JCP as part of the JCP's attempts at changing its image and courting younger voters, with the Asahi Shimbun commenting on Fuwa's "eloquency, gentle manner and good looks" in connection to the JCP's electoral strategy. Fuwa was one of the figures in the party who were instrumental in the movement to change the JCP's general image from that of a violent revolutionary group to a reformist and democratic one.{{Cite journal|last=Dixon|first=Karl|date=1972|title=The Growth of a "Popular" Japanese Communist Party|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2756509|journal=Pacific Affairs|volume=45|issue=3|pages=387–402|doi=10.2307/2756509|issn=0030-851X|url-access=subscription}}

Fuwa was eventually selected to be the chairman of the JCP from 1982 to 1987; he held the position again from 1989 to 2000. He was president of the Central Committee from 2000 to 2006. Fuwa reportedly declined to reattempt election in the 2003 Japanese general election, which ended his career in the Diet that had lasted over 30 years by then. {{As of|alt=As of the JCP's 28th party congress in January 2020|2020|01|post=,}} he remains a member of the party's standing committee and presidium.{{cite web |date=18 January 2020 |title=中央委員会の機構と人事（第２８回党大会） |trans-title=Structure and personnel of the Central Committee (28th Party Congress) |url=https://www.jcp.or.jp/web_jcp/html/yakuin.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221206235636/https://www.jcp.or.jp/web_jcp/html/yakuin.html |archive-date=6 December 2022 |website=Japanese Communist Party |language=ja}} He stepped down as a member of the party's executive committee as a result of the resignation of his successor as chairman, Kazuo Shii, in 2024.{{cite web |last1=Kobayashi |first1=Ken |title=Shii steps down as Communist Party head after 23 years |url=https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15118159 |website=Asahi |publisher=Asahi Shimbun |access-date=19 January 2024}}

He is an advocate of scientific socialism{{cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1996/03/27/in-a-fiercely-capitalist-society-japans-communists-gain-a-voice/|title=In A Fiercely Capitalist Society, Japan's Communists Gain A Voice|last=Lev|first=Michael A.|date=27 March 1996}} and he believes that socialism should be achieved through stages.{{Cite speech|url=http://www.jcp.or.jp/english/jps_weekly/2002-0827-fuwa.html|title=Lenin and the Market Economy|last=Tetsuzo|first=Fuwa|date=27 August 2002|location=Chinese Academy of Social Sciences}}

References

External links

[http://www.japan-press.co.jp/pdf/FuwaonNKorea.pdf On North Korean Question] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070724184103/http://www.japan-press.co.jp/pdf/FuwaonNKorea.pdf|date=July 24, 2007}}
[http://www.japan-press.co.jp/pdf/Fuwa_at_AALA.pdf Asia, Africa and Latin America in the Present-day World] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231121182708/https://www.japan-press.co.jp/pdf/Fuwa_at_AALA.pdf|date=November 21, 2023}}
[http://www.japan-press.co.jp/pdf/Diplomatic_Stalemate.pdf Breaking Japan's Diplomatic Stalemate]
[http://www.japan-press.co.jp/pdf/special-2005-november.pdf Three Missing Points in Arguments for Constitutional Revision]
[http://www.japan-press.co.jp/pdf/Fuwa_20060525.pdf Marxism and the 21st Century World]
[http://www.japan-press.co.jp/pdf/special-october.pdf 85 Years of the Japanese Communist Party and the Present Stage of Development]

Category:1930 births

Category:Living people

Category:Japanese Communist Party politicians

Category:University of Tokyo alumni