The Yūshinkai (, lit. ''Society for Rebirth'') 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 ...

. It was active from 1908 through 1910.

History

The party was established on 21 December 1908 by a merger of the

Yūkōkai The Yūkōkai (, lit. ''Re-emergence Society'') was a political party in Japan. It was active from 1906 until 1908. History The party was established on 20 December 1906 by 36 National Diet members of the Seikō Club (1900s), Seikō Club.Haruhi ...

and several 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 ...

.Haruhiro Fukui (1985) ''Political parties of Asia and the Pacific'', Greenwood Press, p631 The party had few coherent policies except for anti-corruption, and co-operated with

Kensei Hontō Kensei Hontō () was a political party in Japan. History The party was established on 3 November 1898 following a split in the Kenseitō. Kenseitō had been formed earlier in the year by a merger of the Liberal Party and Shimpotō, and it was f ...

in opposing the

Rikken Seiyūkai The was one of the main political party, 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 Devel ...

. In March 1910 over half of its 45 members left to join the new

Rikken Kokumintō The Rikken Kokumintō () was a minor political party in the Empire of Japan. It was also known as simply the Kokumintō. History The ''Kokumintō'' was founded in March 1910, by a merger of the ''Kensei Hontō'' with a number of minor political ...

, and in December 1910 the party was disbanded, with its 18 remaining members sitting as independents.

References

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