11 Facts About Ikuo Oyama

Ikuo Oyama was a Japanese academic, politician, political scientist and writer.

Yamamoto Senji, a colleague of Ikuo Oyama, was assassinated on the same day as he had presented testimony in the Japanese Diet regarding torture of prisoners.

Ikuo Oyama would serve as Colegrove's assistant for research of Japanese Political Science in Northwestern University.

In 1945 John K Emmerson approached Oyama to discuss the former Labor Farmer Party politician's role in postwar Japan.

However Ikuo Oyama was hesitant to openly endorse such a group for fear of endangering the lives of his followers back in Japan.

Ikuo Oyama refused, instead stating that he wanted to return to Japan as an independent person and participate in the democratic reconstruction of Japan.

Ikuo Oyama returned to Japan after the end of World War II.

Ikuo Oyama was elected as a member of the House of Councillors in 1951.

Ikuo Oyama happily shook hands with Zhou Enlai, even though Japan and the People's Republic of China did not have diplomatic relations during his lifetime.

Ikuo Oyama was given a Stalin Award prize on December 20,1951.

Ikuo Oyama died of a subdural hematoma during his tenure in 1955.