The Omori bank robbery ( 大森銀行ギャング事件 ) was a bank robbery committed by members of the Japanese Communist Party in Ōmori-ku , Tokyo , Japan , in 1932. The bank robbery was dubbed the Omori Gang affair .
6-481: On 6 October 1932, three party members stole 31,700 yen from the Kawasaki Daihyaku Bank Ōmori Branch in an attempt to obtain funds for party operations. The plan was unknown to all but one member of the central committee. The robbery badly discredited the party in the eyes of the public. The government took full advantage of the incident and subsequent trial to portray the party as a nest of gangsters, leading to
12-448: A professorship in economics at Kyoto Imperial University . Increasingly inclined toward Marxism , he participated in the March 15 incident of 1928 and was expelled from the university as a subversive . The following year, he joined the formation of a political party, Shinrōtō . Kawakami went on to publish a Marxist-oriented economics journal , Studies of Social Problems . After joining
18-586: The armed robbery. This article related to crime in Japan is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Hajime Kawakami Hajime Kawakami ( 河上 肇 , Kawakami Hajime , October 20, 1879 – January 30, 1946) was a Japanese Marxist economist of the Taishō and early Shōwa periods . Born in Yamaguchi , he graduated from Tokyo Imperial University . After writing for Yomiuri Shimbun , he attained
24-486: The destruction of the Party. Yusho Otsuka, who was the brother-in-law of Hajime Kawakami , hatched a plan to procure desperately needed funds for the party. He and an accomplice had held up the main branch of the Kawasaki Daihyaku Bank in Ōmori. He had used Kawakami's younger daughter, Yoshiko, to "drive alongside him in the getaway car to lend an air of respectability to their group escape." Yoshiko and Otsuka were able to outwit
30-540: The outlawed Japanese Communist Party , he was arrested in 1933 and sent to prison . After his release in 1937, he translated Das Kapital from German to Japanese . Kawakami spent the remainder of his life writing essays ; novels ; poetry ; and his autobiography , Jijoden , which was written secretly between 1943 and 1945 and serialized in 1946. It became a best-seller and was "extravagantly praised as being unprecedented in Japanese letters." This biography of
36-506: The police. Biographer Yasutaka Saegusa believes that the writer Osamu Dazai was indirectly involved in the Omori Gang bank robbery. Others who were accused of being connected to the robbery included those arrested in the Atami raid of 1933. The robbery put a high price on Otsuka's head. Otsuka decided to discontinue his visits to Kawakami. In October 1932 police arrested party members involved in
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