Hotsumi Ozaki, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Hotsumi Ozaki

Japanese journalist

Date of Birth: 29-Apr-1901

Place of Birth: Shirakawa-gō, Japan

Date of Death: 07-Nov-1944

Profession: journalist

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Hotsumi Ozaki (?? ??, Ozaki Hotsumi, April 29, 1901 – November 7, 1944) was an Imperial Japanese journalist working for the Asahi Shimbun newspaper, communist, Soviet Union intelligence agent, and an advisor to Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe.
The only Japanese person to be hanged for treason (under the guise of the Peace Preservation Law) by the Japanese government during World War II, Ozaki is well known as an informant of the Soviet agent Richard Sorge.