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Ryu Ota

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Ryū Ōta (太田おおた りゅう [太田おおた りゅう], Japanese: Ōta Ryū, 16 August 1930 – 19 May 2009[1]) was a Japanese New Left extremist, author, and ecologist. His name is spelled "Ryu Ohta" as well.

Biography

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He was born Tōichi Kurihara (栗原くりはら とういち) in Toyohara, Karafuto Prefecture. In October 1945, he joined the Democratic Youth League of Japan. In 1947, he joined the Japanese Communist Party. In 1953, he left the Japanese Communist Party. In 1955, he and Kanichi Kuroda established the Japan Revolutionary Communist League, thus becoming leader of the Fourth International in Japan. In 1957, he established the Japanese Trotskyist League (日本にっぽんトロツキスト連盟れんめい Nihon Trotskyist Renmei).

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

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He was the leader of the following associations:

  • The Natural Life Academy (天寿てんじゅ学会がっかい, Tenju Gakkai)
  • The Civilization Critic Academy (文明ぶんめい批判ひはん学会がっかい, Bunmei Hihan Gakkai)
  • The Institute for Historical Revisionism (歴史れきし修正しゅうせい研究所けんきゅうじょ, Rekishi Shūsei Kenkyūjo)
  • The Institute for Universal Strategy (宇宙うちゅう戦略せんりゃく研究所けんきゅうじょ, Uchū Senryaku Kenkyūjo)
  • The Earth Restoration League (地球ちきゅう維新いしん連盟れんめい, 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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  1. ^ 訃報ふほう太田おおたりゅうさん78さい評論ひょうろん社会しゃかい運動うんどう (in Japanese). Mainichi Shimbun. 19 May 2009. Retrieved 27 April 2012.
  2. ^ Mark Winchester, Hitotsubashi University
  3. ^ 日本にっぽんエコロジスト宣言せんげんまんるいどもみこと地球ちきゅうISBN 4787786091
  4. ^ "Stephen Roth Institute: Antisemitism and Racism". www.tau.ac.il. Archived from the original on 29 April 2009. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  5. ^ Ufo原理げんり宇宙うちゅう文明ぶんめい: 21世紀せいき科学かがくへの展望てんぼう. 1991. ISBN 4795247552.
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