The Boshin Club was a political party in

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

History

The party was established in December 1908 during a period in which several anti-

Rikken Seiyūkai The was one of the main political parties in the pre-war Empire of Japan. It was also known simply as the ''Seiyūkai''. Founded on September 15, 1900, by Itō Hirobumi,David S. Spencer, "Some Thoughts on the Political Development of the Japane ...

groups began to coalesce in reaction to Rikken Seiyūkai's victory in the 1908 elections.Haruhiro Fukui (1985) ''Political parties of Asia and the Pacific'', Greenwood Press, p457 Its 42 MPs were involved in commerce and industry and many had been elected as independents. In March 1910 the party was dissolved when around half its members joined with several independent MPs and the Daidō Club to form the

Chūō Club The Chūō Club ( ja, 中央倶楽部, lit. ''Central Club'') was a political party in Japan. History The party was established in March 1910 by a group of around 50 MPs who had previously been members of the Boshin Club and the Daidō Club or ...

, whilst seven of its MPs participated in the formation of

Rikken Kokumintō The Rikken Kokumintō ( ja, 立憲国民党, , "Constitutional Nationalist Party") was a minor political party in the Empire of Japan. It was also known as simply the Kokumintō. History The ''Kokumintō'' was founded in March 1910, by a merger o ...

.Fukui, p471

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