Inejiro Asanuma (浅沼 稲次郎, Asanuma Inejirō, 27 December 1898 – 12 October 1960) was a Japanese politician and leader of the Japan Socialist Party. Asanuma became a forceful advocate of socialism in post-war Japan. He was noted for his support of the Chinese Communist Party, and his criticism of U.S–Japanese relations, which were particularly controversial.

Asanuma was born on the island of Miyake-jima, a remote volcanic island that is administratively part of Tokyo, on 27 December 1898.[2] His mother died during his birth, leaving him to be raised by his father, who later died of cancer at the age of 42.

He served in the Diet from 1936. He grew dissatisfied with the direction World War II was taking and withdrew his candidacy from the 1942 election and retired from politics until after Japan's defeat. He later returned to politics as a socialist and left-wing activist.

Asanuma was widely criticized for a 1959 incident in which he visited Communist China and called the United States "the shared enemy of China and Japan" during a speech in Beijing. When he returned from this trip he wore a Mao suit while disembarking from a plane in Japan, sparking criticism even from Socialist leaders.

Asanuma was assassinated with a wakizashi, a traditional short sword, by ultranationalist Otoya Yamaguchi while speaking in a televised political debate in Tokyo. His violent death was seen in graphic detail on national television, causing widespread public shock and outrage.

The Japan Socialist Party had been an unhappy marriage between far left socialists, centrist socialists, and right socialists, who had been forced together in order to oppose the consolidation of conservative parties into the Liberal Democratic Party in 1955. Asanuma had been a charismatic figure who had been able to hold many of these mutually antagonistic factions together through the force of his personality. Under Asanuma's leadership, the party had won an increasing amount of seats in the Diet in every election over the latter half of the 1950s and seemed to be gathering momentum.

Asanuma's untimely death deprived the party of his adroit leadership, and thrust Saburō Eda into the leadership role instead. A centrist, Eda rapidly took the party in a more centrist direction, far faster than the left socialists were ready to accept. This led to growing infighting within the party, and drastically damaged its ability to present a cohesive message to the public. Over the rest of the 1960s and going forward, the number of seats the Socialists held in the Diet continued to decline until the party's extinction in 1996.

Japan Socialist Party

The Japan Socialist Party (日本社会党, Nihon Shakai Tō), also known as the JSP, was a socialist political party in Japan that existed from 1945 to 1996. The party was founded by members of several former proletarian parties that existed before World War II, including the Social Mass Party, the Labour-Farmer Party, and the Japan Labour-Farmer Party.

The JSP was briefly in power from 1947 to 1948. From 1951 to 1955, the JSP was divided into the Left Socialist Party and the Right Socialist Party . In the same year, the two major conservative parties in Japan merged to form the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which established the 1955 System, and allowing the LDP to continuously hold power. The JSP was the largest opposition party but was incapable of forming a government. Nonetheless, the JSP managed to hold about one third of the seats in the National Diet during this period, preventing the LDP from revising the Constitution of Japan.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the JSP under the leadership of Takako Doi earned a record-high number of seats. Shocked by the establishment of new conservative parties, the party's seats in the National Diet decreased significantly in the mid-1990s, and the JSP was dissolved in 1996. Its successor is the Social Democratic Party , a minor party only holding four representatives in the National Diet as of 2020. There have been two JSP Prime Ministers of Japan, Tetsu Katayama and Tomiichi Murayama.

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The product of the prime numbers 3, 7, and 19 is 399. If a number 100a + b (where b is a two-digit number and a is any positive integer) is divisible by 399 or by any of its divisors, then a + 4b is divisible by the same number.

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