Ryu Ota

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Ryū Ōta (太田龍 [太田竜], Japanese: Ōta Ryū^?, b. August 16, 1930, Sakhalin) is a Japanese New Left activist, author, and ecologist. His name is spelled "Ryu Ohta" as well.

He was born as Toitsu Kurihara (栗原登) in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Sakhalin. In October 1945, He joined the Democratic Youth League of Japan. In 1947, he joined the Japanese Communist Party.

In 1953, he left the Japanese Communist Party. In 1955, he and Kanichi Kuroda established the Japan Revolutionary Communist League, thus becoming leader of the Fourth International in Japan. In 1957, he established the Japanese Trotskyist League (日本トロツキスト連盟 Nihon Trotskyist Renmei).

In 1970, he was sentenced to death by his ex-fellow members for leaving the Japanese Trotskyist League.^{[citation needed]}

In 1986, he established the Japanese Green Party.^{[citation needed]} Since 1986, he has been a candidate in three elections.^{[citation needed]}

In the 1990s he became known as one of the principal publishers of antisemitic materials and Jewish conspiracy theories in Japan, as well as controversial writings on the destructive effects of Westernisation, including the aesthetic and moral superiority of Japanese women over Western women.[1] He is also a self-styled Buddhist philosopher.

He is now the leader of the following associations: