Masanosuke Watanabe

Masanosuke Watanabe (渡辺 政之輔, Watanabe Masanosuke, (1899-09-07)September 7, 1899 - (1928-10-06)October 6, 1928[1]) was a Japanese labor activist who served as the chairman of the Japanese Communist Party from March 1928 until his death in October 1928, while the party was outlawed under the Peace Preservation Law.

[2] On 15 March, 1924, he married Tanno Setsu, a labour activist, and member of the Communist Party.

In March 1927, he went to Moscow to represent the JCP at the Comintern, and the eighth enlarged plenum of the ECCI.

He traveled to Formosa (modern-day Taiwan) disguised as a dry goods merchant.

[7][8][9][10] Watanabe's remains were returned to his family in Japan in November 1929 and buried at an Ankoku-ji temple in Ichikawa.