TOKYO, Dec 31 (News On Japan) –
Tetsuzo Fuwa, former chairman of the Japanese Communist Party and a central determine within the occasion for many years, died on December 30, the occasion introduced. He was 95.
Fuwa was born in Tokyo in 1930 and graduated from the University of Tokyo. After working within the secretariat of the Japan Federation of Steel Workers’ Unions, he gained his first seat within the House of Representatives in 1969. The following yr, on the age of 40, he turned the Communist Party’s secretary-general, incomes the nickname “the prince of the Communist Party.”
He went on to grow to be occasion chairman in 1982 and later served as chairman of the occasion’s govt committee till 2006, taking part in a central function as the general public face of the occasion for a few years. Known for his deep data of Marxist concept, Fuwa authored quite a few books on Marxism and likewise wrote essays on mountaineering, certainly one of his private pursuits.
According to the Japanese Communist Party, Fuwa died of acute coronary heart failure at a hospital in Tokyo on the afternoon of December 30.
Source: TBS