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In around 1972, Fuwa, replacing certain senior party members, was placed in higher positions within the JCP as part of the JCP's attempts at changing its image and courting younger voters, with the Asahi Shimbun commenting on Fuwa's "eloquency, gentle manner and good looks" in connection to the JCP's electoral strategy. Fuwa was one of the figures in the party who were instrumental in the movement to change the JCP's general image from that of a violent revolutionary group to a reformist and democratic one.[5]
Fuwa was eventually selected to be the chairman of the JCP from 1982 to 1987; he held the position again from 1989 to 2000. He was president of the Central Committee from 2000 to 2006. Fuwa reportedly declined to reattempt election in the 2003 Japanese general election, which ended his career in the Diet that had lasted over 30 years by then.[1] As of the JCP's 28th party congress in January 2020,[update] he remains a member of the party's standing committee and presidium.[6] He stepped down as a member of the party's executive committee as a result of the resignation of his successor as chairman, Kazuo Shii, in 2024.[7]
He is an advocate of scientific socialism[8] and he believes that socialism should be achieved through stages.[9]
References
^ abc"Communist chief draws veil on long Diet career". The Japan Times Online. 15 February 2003. Archived from the original on 14 April 2021. Retrieved 5 April 2020. Fuwa, whose real name is Kenjiro Ueda, joined the party while he was in high school and started working at its headquarters in 1964.
^"中央委員会の機構と人事（第２８回党大会）" [Structure and personnel of the Central Committee (28th Party Congress)]. Japanese Communist Party (in Japanese). 18 January 2020. Archived from the original on 6 December 2022.
