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Ryū Ōta (
Biography
editHe was born Tōichi Kurihara (
In 1970, he was sentenced to death by his former fellow members for leaving the Japanese Trotskyist League.[citation needed] He spearheaded Ainu Revolution Theory, grouping the Ainu within the lumpenproletariat. In 1971 he attempted to start an Ainu revolution but failed. He and the leader of the Ainu Liberation League were both arrested for inciting a riot and they continuously blamed each other.[2]
In 1986, he established the Japanese Green Party, but it immediately split into two separate parties and both failed.[citation needed] In 1986, he authored a book called Japan Ecologist Proclamation, in which he proclaimed that "we must overthrow all human dictatorship! Free the cockroaches, free the rats, free the earthworms!"[3] Since 1986, he was a candidate in three elections. [citation needed] In the 1990s he became known as one of the principal publishers of antisemitic materials and Jewish conspiracy theories in Japan, as well as controversial writings on the destructive effects of Westernisation, including the aesthetic and moral superiority of Japanese women over Western women.[4] He was also a self-styled Buddhist philosopher.
Affiliations
editHe was the leader of the following associations:
- The Natural Life Academy (
天寿 学会 , Tenju Gakkai) - The Civilization Critic Academy (
文明 批判 学会 , Bunmei Hihan Gakkai) - The Institute for Historical Revisionism (
歴史 修正 研究所 , Rekishi Shūsei Kenkyūjo) - The Institute for Universal Strategy (
宇宙 戦略 研究所 , Uchū Senryaku Kenkyūjo) - The Earth Restoration League (
地球 維新 連盟 , Chukyū Ishin Renmei)
He was also the author of UFO Theory and Space Civilization: Prospects for 21st Century Science.[5]
Notes
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訃報 >太田 竜 さん78歳 =評論 家 、社会 運動 家 (in Japanese). Mainichi Shimbun. 19 May 2009. Retrieved 27 April 2012. - ^ Mark Winchester, Hitotsubashi University
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日本 エコロジスト宣言 ―万 類 共 尊 の地球 へ ISBN 4787786091 - ^ "Stephen Roth Institute: Antisemitism and Racism". www.tau.ac.il. Archived from the original on 29 April 2009. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
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原理 と宇宙 文明 : 21世紀 科学 への展望 . 1991. ISBN 4795247552.