The is a Marxist–Leninist–Maoist communist party in Japan. It was founded in 1969 centered on the Yamaguchi Prefecture Committee of the Japanese Communist Party, under the leadership of those who supported .Robert J. Alexander, Maoism in the Developed World, Praeger Publishers, 2001, p. 173.
Currently Maoist, it suffered a schism in 1975 when the Kantō faction of the party embraced the Hoxhaism of the New Zealand Communist Party while the Yamaguchi faction remained supportive of Maoism. The party reunified around Maoism in 1980.Robert J. Alexander, Maoism in the Developed World, Praeger Publishers, 2001, p. 174.
See also List of anti-revisionist groups
References
External links 人民の星 — official website of the party