“Akahata” ( Japanese し ん ぶ ん 赤 旗 Akahata , lit. “Red Banner”) is a Japanese newspaper, the official printed publication of the Communist Party of Japan [2] [3] [4] [5] .
| " Akahata | |
|---|---|
| Original title | し ん ぶ ん 赤 旗 |
| Type of | |
| Format | A2 |
| Owner | |
| Publisher | Communist Party of Japan |
| A country | |
| Founded by | February 1, 1928 [1] |
| Political affiliation | central organ of the Communist Party of Japan |
| Tongue | Japanese [1] |
| Periodicity | daily [1] |
| Main office |  Japan Tokyo [1] |
| Web site | |
History
The newspaper was founded in 1928 under the name "Secca . " At first it was published illegally, and starting from December 5, 1945, it began to be published legally and renamed its modern name. The newspaper courageously exposed the colonialist policy of the United States in Japan, as well as the Japanese reactionaries who are accomplices of American imperialism, also opposed the transformation of Japan into the US bridgehead for the war against the USSR and China and fought for independence and for the democratization of Japan. The newspaper was brutally harassed by the American occupation authorities and their Japanese agents.
In June 1950, by order of the American occupation authorities in Japan, the publication of the Akahata newspaper was banned [2] [3] , and the Communist Party was forced to move to a semi-legal position [5] .
Beginning in May 1952, the publication of the newspaper resumed. Today, the Akahata newspaper is one of the most popular publications in Japan, which is published in many countries of the world.
In 1972, the circulation of the Akahata newspaper was 600 thousand copies. on weekdays and 2.2 million on Sundays [6] .
In 2007 the circulation of the daily issue of the Akahata newspaper was over 600 thousand copies, the circulation of the Sunday issue was over 2.4 million copies. [1] .
In 2014, the circulation of the Akahata newspaper was 1.2 million copies [7] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Akahata // Countries of the world today. Volume 4. Asia. M., ITAR-TASS, 2008. p. 4-49-9
- ↑ 1 2 Communist Party of Japan // Great Soviet Encyclopedia. / redkoll., ch. ed. B. A. Vvedensky. 2nd ed. volume 22. M., State Scientific Publishing House "Great Soviet Encyclopedia", 1953. pp. 2553-255
- ↑ 1 2 Communist Party of Japan // Great Soviet Encyclopedia. / ed. A.M. Prokhorova. 3rd ed. volume 12. M., "Soviet Encyclopedia", 1973. p. 567
- ↑ Communist Party of Japan (CPJ) // Political parties: a guide / under the general. ed. V.V. Zagladin and G.A. Kiselev. M., Politizdat, 1986. p. 211-213
- ↑ 1 2 Communist Party of Japan // Great Russian Encyclopedia / redkoll., Ch. ed. Yu.S. Osipov. volume 14. M., scientific publishing house "Big Russian Encyclopedia", 2009. p.672
- ↑ d. n S.I. Verbitsky. Japan: a time of difficult problems. M., “Knowledge”, 1974. pp. 37-38
- ↑ Alexander Bratersky, Polina Matveeva. The cause of Lenin lives on, but does not win. Where the communist parties still retain political influence // "Newspaper. RU "of November 7, 2014
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Literature
- Sakki // Tatars - Topopik. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1956. - P. 425. - ( Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 51 vols.] / Ch. Ed. B. A. Vvedensky ; 1949-1958, vol. 42).