Rousoukai (老壮会, The Society for Old Combatants) was a

Japanese Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspor ...

think tank which attracted participants from both the left-wing and right-wing of Japanese politics. It was founded on 9 October 1918 and continued until 1921.

Members

Left-wing

Sakai Toshihiko was a Japanese socialist. He advocated opposition to the Russo-Japanese War, founded the Heiminsha and published the newspaper ''Heimin Shimbun''. He formed the Japan Socialist Party and the Japanese Communist Party, and became the first genera ...

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{{reflist 1918 establishments in Japan Organizations established in 1918 Organizations disestablished in 1921 Think tanks based in Japan