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Ryū Ōta (太田 龍 [太田 竜],Japanese: Ōta Ryū; 16 August 1930 – 19 May 2009[1]) was a JapaneseNew Left activist, author, and ecologist. His name is spelled "Ryu Ohta" as well.
He was born Tōichi Kurihara (栗原 登一) inToyohara,Karafuto Prefecture. In October 1945, he joined theDemocratic Youth League of Japan. In 1947, he joined theJapanese Communist Party. In 1953, he left theJapanese Communist Party. In 1955, he andKanichi Kuroda established theJapan Revolutionary Communist League, thus becoming leader of theFourth International in Japan. In 1957, he established theJapanese Trotskyist League (日本トロツキスト連盟Nihon Trotskyist Renmei).
In 1970, he was sentenced to death by his former fellow members for leaving the Japanese Trotskyist League.[citation needed] He spearheadedAinu Revolution Theory, grouping the Ainu within thelumpenproletariat. In 1971 he attempted to start anAinu revolution but failed. He and the leader of theAinu Liberation League were both arrested for inciting a riot and they continuously blamed each other.[2]
In 1986, he established the Japanese Green Party, but it immediately split into two separate parties and both failed.[citation needed] In 1986, he authored a book calledJapan Ecologist Proclamation, in which he proclaimed that "we must overthrow all human dictatorship! Free the cockroaches, free the rats, free the earthworms!"[3] Since 1986, he was a candidate in three elections.[citation needed] In the 1990s he became known as one of the principal publishers ofantisemitic materials andJewish conspiracy theories in Japan includingRothschild andInternational Jewish conspiracy theories and those byEustace Mullins andMichael Collins Piper, as well as other conspiracy theories such asMasonic,Illuminati,NWO,Vatican,Committee of 300,UFO,Princess Diana,David Icke andReptilians,William Guy Carr,Pearl Harbor,JFK,9/11 and otheranti-American conspiracy theories.[4] He was also a self-styled Buddhist philosopher.
He was the leader of the following associations:
He was also the author ofUFO Theory and Space Civilization: Prospects for 21st Century Science.[5]
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