July 20, 2007
Kenji Miyamoto, 98, Leader of Japan’s Communist Party, Dies

By DOUGLAS MARTIN

Kenji Miyamoto, a Japanese Communist who emerged from jail in 1945 to lead his party on a jagged postwar course in which it renounced Russian and Chinese Communism ― and even the phrase Marxist-Leninist ― in favor of more popular bread-and-butter issues, died Wednesday in Tokyo. He was 98. [Read More!]