Taiji Yamaga, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Taiji Yamaga

Japanese Esperantist

Date of Birth: 26-Jul-1892

Place of Birth: Kyoto, Kyōto Prefecture, Japan

Date of Death: 06-Dec-1970

Profession: professor, Esperantist

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Taiji Yamaga

  • Taiji Yamaga was a Japanese anarchist and Esperantist.
  • Taiji Yamaga was born in 1892 to a printing family in Kyoto.
  • Yamaga moved to Tokyo, where he studied Esperanto with historian and Esperantis Katsumu Kuroita.
  • At age sixteen, Yamaga served as the secretary of Kuroita's Japan Esperanto Society.
  • In 1911, Yamaga was introduced to anarchist Sakae Osugi. Yamaga became an assistant to anarchist Osugi.
  • At Osugi's request, Yamaga visited Chinese anarchist Liu Shifu and his comrades in Shanghai.
  • He stayed at Shifu's HQ for several weeks.
  • Shifu invited Yamaga to help him publish the journal Minsheng.Yamaga returned to Japan to help with the publication of the Heimin Shimbun.
  • In 1922, Yamaga was able secure Osugi a false passport.Beginning in 1939, he lived in Shanghai, Kaohsiung, Taipei, and Manila.
  • He returned to Kyoto in 1946.
  • In 1960, Yamaga attended the tenth international meeting of the War Resisters' International in India.
  • In 1962, Yamaga began writing an illustrated memoirs entitled The Twilight Journal.
  • The Yamaga Manga. He died on December 6, 1970. He is survived by his wife Mika Shigehara.

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