The Seikō Club (, "Fairness and Friendship Club") was a political party in

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History

The party was established in December 1918 as a merger of the Seiwa Club and a group of eight independent members of the

National Diet , transcription_name = ''Kokkai'' , legislature = 215th Session of the National Diet , coa_pic = Flag of Japan.svg , house_type = Bicameral , houses = , foundation=29 November 1890(), leader1_type ...

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

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Seiko Club Defunct political parties in Japan Political parties established in 1918 1918 establishments in Japan Political parties disestablished in 1920 1920 disestablishments in Japan Political parties in the Empire of Japan