Progress Party (Japan)

This article describes the Shinpotō, founded in 1896. For the party of the same name, founded in 1987, see Progress Party (Japan, 1987-1993) , for Nihon Shinpotō, founded in 1945, see Progress Party of Japan .

Progress party
Shimpotō / Shinpotō
Party presidency ( de facto)	Ōkuma Shigenobu
founding	March 1, 1896
Place of foundation	Tokyo
resolution	June 20, 1898
Headquarters	Tokyo

The Progressive Party ( 進 歩 党 , Shimpotō / Shinpotō , English Progressive Party ) was a political party in the Japanese Empire during the Meiji period .

history

The Progressive Party was founded by Ōkuma Shigenobu in March 1896 as a merger of the Rikken Kaishintō ( 立憲 改進 党 , "Constitutional Reform [he] -" or "Progressive Party", English Constitutional Reform Party , Constitutional Progressive Party, etc.) and smaller political parties to balance a temporary alliance between Ōkuma's rival, Itō Hirobumi , and the Liberal Party .

In June 1898 the Progressive Party merged with the Liberal Party to form Kenseitō .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Richard Sims: Japanese Political History Since the Meiji Renovation 1868-2000 . University of California Press , 1990, ISBN 0-520-06838-6 , pp. 81 .