Social Sciences in China (Chinese Edition)

No.5, 2019

 

An Examination of the Tokyo Branch of the Communist Party of China

(Abstract)

 

Xu Zhimin

 

After the founding of the Communist Party of China, in order to meet the needs of the burgeoning international Communist movement and conduct overseas activities, the Tokyo branch of the Communist Party of China was set up in Japan. Due to the Japanese government’s strict surveillance and repression, the Tokyo branch, despite the secrecy of its revolutionary activities and movement of people, was destroyed and rebuilt several times. Confronted by these difficulties, the Tokyo branch’s Party members did not give up their revolutionary ideals and beliefs. On one hand, they actively studied and spread Marxism while secretly developing Party members and enlarging the organization. On the other, they planned anti-Japanese demonstrations and gathered information to support the homeland’s revolution and the Anti-Japanese War. They thus fought indomitably for the homeland’s independence, national revolution, and the Communist cause. In particular, they functioned as a secret channel between the Communist Party of China and the Japanese Communists. They thus played an important role in transmitting information, joint demonstrations, and cooperative anti-war activities.