The Chūseikai (, lit. ''Impartiality Society'') was a political party in

Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...

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The party was established in December 1913 as a merger of Ekirakukai and Seiyū Club and initially had 37 MPs.Haruhiro Fukui (1985) ''Political parties of Asia and the Pacific'', Greenwood Press, pp458–459 It supported

Ōkuma Shigenobu Marquess was a Japanese politician who served as the prime minister of Japan in 1898, and from 1914 to 1916. Born in the Saga Domain, Ōkuma was appointed minister of finance soon after the Meiji Restoration of 1868, aided by his friendship w ...

's government from 1914 until 1916, with party member Yukio Ozaki appointed Minister of Justice. In the 1915 general elections it won 33 seats, and in October 1916 it merged into the new Kenseikai party.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Chuseikai Defunct political parties in Japan Political parties established in 1913 1913 establishments in Japan Political parties disestablished in 1916 1916 disestablishments in Japan Political parties in the Empire of Japan