Tatsuji Fuse (13 November 1880-13 September 1953) was a Japanese lawyer and social activist who supported the Korean independence movement.
Biography[]
Tatsuji Fuse was born in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan on 13 November 1880, and he was raised in the Orthodox church. He later converted to Buddhism on marrying his wife, and he became a criminal lawyer in 1903 and, by 1920, had become a successful attorney. Fuse supported the suppression of prostitution and electoral fraud, and he also backed the Korean independence movement. In 1928, Fuse unsuccessfully ran for office as a Labour-Farmer Party politician, and he was indicted in 1929 and disbarred in 1932 for his membership in the Japanese Communist Party. After World War II, he returned to his earlier involvement in the left-wing legal movement, and he died of cancer in 1953.