Patriotic Party (Japan)
| Patriotic party | |||
| Aikoku Kōtō | |||
| Public Party of Patriots | |||
| founding | January 1874 | ||
| resolution | 1890 | ||
The Patriotic Party ( 愛国 公 党 , Aikoku Kōtō , English Public Party of Patriots ) was the first political party in the Japanese Empire in the Meiji period .
history
The Patriotic Party was founded in January 1874 by Itagaki Taisuke , Etō Shimpei , Gotō Shōjirō and others as part of the movement for freedom and civil rights ( 自由民 権 運動 , Jiyū Minken Undō , English Freedom and People's Rights Movement ). The purpose was to ask the Meiji government to establish a national assembly . Fearing arrest after the failed Saga rebellion, Itagaki dissolved the Patriotic Party shortly after it was founded.
However, Itagaki revived the party in the 1890s and it later merged with the Liberal Party ( 自由 党 , Jiyūtō , English Liberal Party ).
The Patriotic Party can be considered the first political party in Japan. However, it should not be confused with the Society of Patriots ( 愛国 社 , Aikokusha , English Society of Patriots ) or with later ultra-nationalist movements with similar names.
Individual evidence
- ^ Richard Sims: Japanese Political History Since the Meiji Renovation 1868-2000 . Palgrave Macmillan , New York 2001, ISBN 978-0-312-23914-5 .
- ↑ Thomas Weyrauch, The Party Landscape of East Asia , Longtai, Heuchelheim, 2018, ISBN 978-3-938946-27-5 , pp. 25 ff., 36; Thomas Weyrauch: Itagaki Taisuke - 100 years later . In: Association of German-Japanese Societies from May 16, 2019, https://www.vdjg.de/itagaki-taisuke-100-jahre-danach/