The Seikō Club ( ja, 正交倶楽部, "Fairness and Friendship 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 1918 as a merger of the

Seiwa Club The Seiwa Club (''Purity and Harmony Club'') was a political party in Japan. History The party was established in February 1918 as a breakaway by 28 Shinseikai members.Haruhiro Fukui (1985) ''Political parties of Asia and the Pacific'', Greenwood ...

and a group of eight independent members of the

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, and was initially an "Independent Group". In March 1919 it was renamed the Seikō Club, by which time it had 33 Diet members.Haruhiro Fukui (1985) ''Political parties of Asia and the Pacific'', Greenwood Press, p. 613 It did poorly in the May 1920 general elections due to a new electoral law that replaced multi-member constituencies with single-member ones. The following month its last four members merged with 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 ...

's sole member and 20 independent members to form the Kōshin Club.Fukui, p. 550

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