Yasuo Ogata
Director, International Bureau, Japanese Communist Party
In addition to serving as director of the international bureau for the JCP, Yasuo Ogata is a member of the party’s Standing Executive Committee. He also has a seat in the Japanese House of Councillors. The following is excerpted from his June 29, 2003, comments following a factfinding trip to Iraq. From June 13 to June 21, a Japanese Communist Party team visited Iraq, where sporadic combat still goes on, even though the country has been placed under occupation by U.S. and British forces since two and half months ago following the downfall of the Saddam Hussein regime.We found that…
