Kazuo Aoyama (靑山 和夫, Aoyama Kazuo) was a Japanese communist who joined the Republic of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Aoyama was on good terms with the Kuomintang, despite openly admitting he was a Communist. While Aoyama was in Chongqing, he successfully sold a printing plant to the Office of War Information (OWI).^[1] Aoyama replaced Wataru Kaji as a "psychological advisor", re-educating captured Japanese soldiers.^[2]

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• Japanese dissidence during the Shōwa period
• Japanese in the Chinese resistance to the Empire of Japan
• Japanese People's Emancipation League