The Ishinkai ( ja, 維新会, "Restoration Society") was a short-lived 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 June 1917 by 43 independent members of the

National Diet The is the national legislature of Japan. It is composed of a lower house, called the House of Representatives (Japan), House of Representatives (, ''Shūgiin''), and an upper house, the House of Councillors (Japan), House of Councillors (, ...

elected in the April elections, some of whom had previously been members of the

Kōseikai The Kōseikai ( ja, 公正会, "Fairness Association") was a political party in Japan. History The party was established in December 1916 by 36 National Diet members as a merger of a group of independents and the remaining members of the Kōyū C ...

.Haruhiro Fukui (1985) ''Political parties of Asia and the Pacific'', Greenwood Press, p500 It was pro-government, and supported Prime Minister

Terauchi Masatake Gensui Count Terauchi Masatake ( ja, 寺内正毅), GCB (5 February 1852 – 3 November 1919), was a Japanese military officer, proconsul and politician. He was a '' Gensui'' (or Marshal) in the Imperial Japanese Army and the Prime Minister o ...

. In October 1917 the party merged with a group of 12 independent Diet members known as the "Kansai Group" to form the

Shinseikai The Shinseikai () was a political party in Japan between 1917 and 1920. History The party was established in October 1917 as a merger of the Ishinkai (39 seats) and a group of 12 independent National Diet members, becoming the third-largest part ...

."New Political Combine" ''The Japan Daily Mail'', 29 September 1917, p624

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