Japanese People's Emancipation League

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Japanese People's Emancipation League

Japanese: 日本人民解放連盟 Chinese: 日本人民解放聯盟
Flag of the Yan'an branch of the JPE League
Abbreviation	JPEL
Predecessor	Japanese People's Anti-war Alliance League to Raise the Political Consciousness of Japanese Troops
Formation	1944
Founded at	Yan'an
Dissolved	1945
Purpose	Political education of Japanese POWs Opposition to the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Japanese involvement in the World War II and the statist imperial system Propaganda and psychological warfare aimed at the Japanese Promotion of liberal democracy and people's democracy
Leader	Sanzo Nosaka
Key people	Shigeo Tsutsui
Affiliations	Japanese Communist Party Chinese Communist Party

The Japanese People's Emancipation League (日本人民解放連盟, Nippon Jinmin Kaihō Renmei, JPEL),^[1] also Japanese People's Liberation Alliance and "Free Japan" (similarly to "Free Germany"),^[2][3] was an organization formed of the Japanese prisoners of war and anti-war activists with the support of the Japanese and Chinese Communist parties in the Communist-controlled China in 1944, during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II.^[4] The declared aims of the organisation were the withdrawal of Japanese troops from all occupied territories, the overthrow of the statist militarist system in the Empire of Japan and the establishment of a "democratic people's government". Its members participated in propaganda and military activities during the war.