The Yūkōkai (, lit. ''Re-emergence Society'') 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 ...

. It was active from 1906 until 1908.

History

The party was established on 20 December 1906 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 of the Seikō Club.Haruhiro Fukui (1985) ''Political parties of Asia and the Pacific'', Greenwood Press, pp630–631 It opposed

Saionji Kinmochi Prince was a Japanese politician and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1906 to 1908 and from 1911 to 1912. He was elevated from marquis to prince in 1920. As the last surviving member of Japan's ''genrō,'' he was the most in ...

Rikken Seiyūkai The was one of the main political parties in the pre-war Empire of Japan. It was also known simply as the ''Seiyūkai''. Founded on September 15, 1900, by Itō Hirobumi,David S. Spencer, "Some Thoughts on the Political Development of the Japane ...

government and its high level of spending on the military and public services, and advocated an anti-corruption campaign. It won 29 seats in the 1908 elections. Following a failed attempt to form a new party by merging several parties opposed to the Rikken Seiyūkai government, it merged with a group of independent Diet members to form the

Yūshinkai The Yūshinkai ( ja, 又新会, lit. ''Society for Rebirth'') was a political party in Japan. It was active from 1908 through 1910. History The party was established on 21 December 1908 by a merger of the Yūkōkai and several independent mem ...

in December 1908.

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