Tomegorō Yoshizumi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Tomegorō Yoshizumi

Japanese spy and journalist

Date of Birth: 09-Feb-1911

Place of Birth: Asahi, Yamagata, Japan

Date of Death: 10-Aug-1948

Profession: military personnel, double agent, journalist

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Tomegorō Yoshizumi

  • Tomegoro Yoshizumi (?? ???, Yoshizumi Tomegoro, 9 February 1911 – 10 August 1948) was a Japanese spy and journalist who defected to Indonesia during the National Revolution.
  • Born in Tohoku region during the late stages of the Meiji period, in his early twenties he joined the Japanese expatriate community in the Dutch East Indies.
  • Yoshizumi recruited locals for the Japanese spy ring in Java and Sulawesi, while also taking up employment for local Japanese newspapers.
  • He was a noted follower of Japanese nationalism, and reportedly endorsed a "new order in East Asia".
  • Although a civilian, he was inducted into the Imperial Japanese Navy, earning an officer's rank. Deported from Java following the start of World War II, Yoshizumi returned illegally and was arrested in 1941, when Japan declared war on the Netherlands.
  • He spent time in an Australian internment camp, but was released during a prisoner exchange in August 1942, and could return to the East Indies, which were by then under Japanese occupation.
  • Although serving as head of the Japanese intelligence board Kaigun Bukanfu, by 1945 he embraced Indonesian nationalism and Marxism.
  • He ensured that Sukarno and Muhammad Hatta signed their names to the Proclamation of Indonesian Independence, which he also helped write.
  • Yoshizumi then joined Tan Malaka's network of anti-Dutch guerillas, taking part as a soldier in the clashes of East Java.
  • These activities inaugurated his participation in the National Revolution, which ended with his death from lung disease in 1948.

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