Takakura Teru

In this Japanese name, the surname is Takakura.

Takakura Teru
高倉 輝
Takakura in 1947
Member of the House of Representatives
In office 10 April 1946 – 31 March 1947
Preceded by	Constituency established
Succeeded by	Multi-member district
Constituency	Nagano at-large
Personal details
Born	(1891-04-14)14 April 1891 Kubokawa, Kōchi, Japan
Died	2 April 1986(1986-04-02) (aged 94) Akishima, Tokyo, Japan
Party	Communist
Alma mater	Kyoto Imperial University
Writing career
Language	Japanese
Period	Taishō literature Shōwa literature
Literary movement	Proletarian literature

Takakura Teru (Japanese: 高倉 輝, Hepburn: Takakura Teru; born Takakura Terutaka, Japanese: 高倉 輝豊; 14 April 1891 – 2 April 1986) was a Japanese novelist, playwright, politician and central committee member of the Japanese Communist Party from 1950 to 1951.

Takakura graduated from Kyoto Imperial University and was a left-wing thinker of the Kyoto School. He was arrested several times under the Public Security Preservation Laws prior to the Allied occupation of Japan. In 1945 he fled parole to attend a funeral and was arrested along with Miki Kiyoshi, who he had gone to for clothes and money. This would inevitably lead to Miki's death in prison. Takakura however, following his release at the hands of the Allied Occupation, went on to become a politician for the Japanese Communist Party in 1946.

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Sources

• "Takakura Teru". The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (3rd ed.). 1973. Retrieved 14 March 2020 – via The Free Dictionary.