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| Japanese: 日本人民解放連盟 Chinese: 日本人民解放聯盟 | |
 Flag of the Yan'an branch of the JPE League | |
| Abbreviation | JPEL |
|---|---|
| Predecessor | Japanese People's Anti-war Alliance League to Raise the Political Consciousness of Japanese Troops |
| Formation | 1944 |
| Founded at | Yan'an |
| Dissolved | 1945 |
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| Leader | Sanzo Nosaka |
Key people | Shigeo Tsutsui |
| Affiliations | Japanese Communist Party Chinese Communist Party |
The Japanese People's Emancipation League (日本人民解放連盟, Nippon Jinmin Kaihō Renmei, JPEL),[1] also Japanese People's Liberation Alliance and "Free Japan" (similarly to "Free Germany"),[2][3] was an organization formed of the Japanese prisoners of war and anti-war activists with the support of the Japanese and Chinese Communist parties in the Communist-controlled China in 1944, during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II.[4] The declared aims of the organisation were the withdrawal of Japanese troops from all occupied territories, the overthrow of the statist militarist system in the Empire of Japan and the establishment of a "democratic people's government". Its members participated in propaganda and military activities during the war.
- ^ United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary (1956). Scope of Soviet activity in the United States. Vol. Parts 50-54. United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. pp. 3502–3505.
- ^ "JAPAN: Free Japan Committee". Time. July 30, 1945.
- ^ United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary (1956). Scope of Soviet activity in the United States. Vol. Parts 50-54. United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. pp. 3502–3505.
- ^ Roth, Andrew (1945). Dilemma in Japan. Little, Brown. pp. 162-188