| Takakura Teru | |||||||||
| Native Name: | 高倉 輝 | ||||||||
| Native Name Lang: | ja | ||||||||
| Birth Name: | Japanese: 高倉 輝豊 | ||||||||
| Birth Date: | 14 April 1891 | ||||||||
| Birth Place: | Takaoka, Japan | ||||||||
| Nationality: | Japanese | ||||||||
| Alma Mater: | Kyoto Imperial University | ||||||||
| Party: | Japanese Communist Party | ||||||||
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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.[1] 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.[2] [3] 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 the early 1950s.