Tetsuzo Fuwa, ex-Japanese Communist Party chairman, dies at 95

Tetsuzo Fuwa, a former chairman of the Japanese Communist Party (JCP) who was considered its “theoretical pillar”, died on Tuesday, according to party sources. He was 95. Fuwa, whose real name was Kenjiro Ueda, joined the JCP in 1947 when he was a high school student and served as the director of the party think tank, the Social Sciences Institute, after stepping down as chairman in January 2006. He quit his post as the party’s top executive due to old age. The Tokyo native worked as a secretary...