The Seiwa Club (''Purity and Harmony Club'') was a political party in

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History

The party was established in February 1918 as a breakaway by 28

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 ...

members.Haruhiro Fukui (1985) ''Political parties of Asia and the Pacific'', Greenwood Press, p613 In December 1918 it merged with a group of independent members of the

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to form an "Independent Group" that later became the Seikō Club.

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