The Japan Cooperative Party (, ''Nihon Kyōdōtō'') was a political party in

Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...

History

The party was established by Katsutarō Kita in August 1946 when he was expelled from the Cooperative Democratic Party due to his refusal to compromise on the cooperative aspect of party policy during merger talks with Shinseikai.Haruhiro Fukui (1985) ''Political parties of Asia and the Pacific'', Greenwood Press, p514 The new party was named after the original Japan Cooperative Party, which had merged into the Cooperative Democratic Party in May 1946. In 1947 it was dissolved when Kita formed the Japan Farmers Party.

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