Yuki Ikeda

Yuki Ikeda was a Japanese dissident who joined the Republic of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Ikeda was involved with the Christian reform movement of Toyohiko Kagawa, and anti-militarist activities. She fled to China, where she married Wataru Kaji.^[1] She fled Shanghai along with her husband, Wataru, when the Japanese invaded the city. She worked on the re-education program of Japanese prisoners of war in Chongqing.^[2]

During the war, Ikeda met journalist Edgar Snow, an U.S soldier, and labor activist Koji Ariyoshi.^[2][3]

See also

• Japanese dissidence during the Shōwa period
• Japanese in the Chinese resistance to the Empire of Japan
• Japanese People's Emancipation League

References

1. Roth, Andrew (1945). Dilemma in Japan. Little, Brown. pp. 162–168.
2. From Kona to Yenan: The Political Memoirs of Koji Ariyoshi, By Koji Ariyoshi, Alice M. Beechert, Edward D. Beechert page 104-105
3. From Vagabond to Journalist: Edgar Snow in Asia, 1928-1941 By Robert M. Farnsworth Page 326 -327

Further reading

• 1973-06-25. 故池田幸子女史の歩んだ道: 日中戦争期における反戦運動 (Japanese), Institute of Chinese Affairs, 304, pp. 23–35.