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On July 17, 1935, he possibly drowned while swimming in Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan, at the age of twenty-three.

He may have been en route to the Soviet Union, passing through Japan to receive training, sent by the Chinese Communist Party.

Some suspect that he was killed by Japanese right-wing radicals and others, that he was killed by Chinese Nationalists, as he was in Japan to flee from them.

However, he disappeared while swimming with friends, making the task of killing him difficult and swimming during mid-July is dangerous, leaving drowning as the most probable cause of death.

He was found by the local rescue team the following day.

According to them and the police, his body was not different from that of ordinary drowned bodies.