Yuki Ikeda

Not to be confused with Yuki Ikeda (footballer).

Yuki Ikeda was a Japanese dissident who joined the Republic of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Ikeda was involved with the Christian reform movement of Toyohiko Kagawa, and anti-militarist activities. She fled to China, where she married Wataru Kaji.^[1] She fled Shanghai along with her husband, Wataru, when the Japanese invaded the city. She worked on the re-education program of Japanese prisoners of war in Chongqing.^[2]

During the war, Ikeda met journalist Edgar Snow and labor activist Koji Ariyoshi.^[2][3]

See also

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