The Kōseikai ( ja, 公正会, "Fairness Association") 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 1916 by 36

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 (, ...

members as a merger of a group of independents and the remaining members of the

Kōyū Club The Kōyū Club ( ja, 公友倶楽部, "Friendship Club") was a political party in Japan. History The party was established in the build-up to the March 1915 general elections as Okuma Kōenkai, a group of Waseda University graduates campaigning ...

who had not joined the new

Kenseikai The was a short-lived political party in the pre-war Empire of Japan. History The ''Kenseikai'' was founded on 10 October 1916, as a merger of the ''Rikken Dōshikai'' (led by Katō Takaaki), '' Chūseikai'' (led by Ozaki Yukio) and the '' K ...

when it was established in September.Haruhiro Fukui (1985) ''Political parties of Asia and the Pacific'', Greenwood Press, pp550–551 However, it was dissolved the following month in 1917, and several of its members were amongst the founders of the

Ishinkai The Ishinkai ( ja, 維新会, "Restoration Society") was a short-lived political party in Japan. History The party was established in June 1917 by 43 independent members of the National Diet elected in the 1917 Japanese general election, April e ...

after the April 1917 elections.

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