Takakura Teru
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Takakura Teru | |
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高倉 輝 | |
 Takakura in 1947 | |
| Member of the House of Representatives | |
| In office 10 April 1946 – 31 March 1947 | |
| Preceded by | Constituency established |
| Succeeded by | Multi-member district |
| Constituency | Nagano at-large |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 14 April 1891 |
| Died | 2 April 1986 (aged 94) Akishima, Tokyo, Japan |
| Party | Communist |
| Alma mater | Kyoto Imperial University |
| Writing career | |
| Language | Japanese |
| Period |
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| Literary movement | Proletarian literature |
Takakura Teru (Japanese: 高倉 輝, Hepburn: Takakura Teru; born Takakura Terutaka, Japanese: 高倉 輝豊; 14 April 1891 – 2 April 1986) 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 1946.
