Ikuo Oyama

Ikuo Oyama

Ikuo Oyama (大山 郁夫 Ōyama Ikuo) was a Japanese politician. He became the target of assassination by a Japanese military clique.[1] He fled Japan in 1933 to the United States, where he got a job at Northwestern University at its library and political science department.[2] He returned to Japan following the Japanese surrender.[3] His colleagues begged him not to accept the Stalin Prize when he was nominated, saying he would just be a Soviet tool. Some of his oldest friends abandoned him when he accepted it.[4]

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  1. ↑ "Chased Out Of Japan, He May Return To Help". The Milwaukee Journal. 10 October 1946. p. 4. Retrieved 3 August 2014.
  2. ↑ Hoover, William D. Historical Dictionary of Postwar Japan. p. 245.
  3. ↑ "Koji Ariyoshi's blog". Hawaii.edu. 1952-03-20. Retrieved 2014-08-03.
  4. ↑ Beech, Keyes (2 February 1952). "Proves Curse Stalin's Prize". The Evening Citizen (Ottawa, Canada). Retrieved 27 January 2014.