Tetsuzo Fuwa


Tetsuzo Fuwa is the pen name of Kenjiro Ueda and a member and the former chair of the Japanese Communist Party. He is a graduate of Tokyo University. He joined the Communist Party in 1947.
He chaired the Communist Party from 1982 to 1987; and he again held to position from 1989 to 2000. He was president of the Central Committee from 2000 to 2006.
He advocates scientific socialism and thinks that socialism should be achieved through stages.