Society of Patriots
| Society of Patriots | |||
| Aikokusha | |||
| Society of Patriots | |||
| Party presidency ( sōsai) | Itagaki Taisuke | ||
| founding | February 1875 | ||
| resolution | 1875 | ||
The Society of Patriots ( 愛国 社 , Aikokusha , English Society of Patriots ) was the first political party in the Japanese Empire in the Meiji period .
history
The Society of Patriots was founded in February 1875 by Itagaki Taisuke as part of a liberal political federation in order to connect his Risshi-sha with the movement for freedom and civil rights ( 自由民 権 運動 , Jiyū Minken Undō , English Freedom and People's Rights Movement ). In the same year, the party was dissolved after Interior Minister Ōkubo Toshimichi promised party leader Itagaki that the government would draft a constitution.
As to September 1878 no constitution was published, Itagaki revived the Society of Patriots again and renamed it in Federal Government to establish a National Assembly ( 国会期成同盟 , Kokkai Kisei domei , English League for the establishment of a National Assembly ) to. The main purpose was to ask the government to set up a national assembly . It was later renamed the Liberal Party , which Itagaki founded in October 1881.
The Society of Patriots should not be confused with the Patriotic Party ( 愛国 公 党 , Aikoku Kōtō , English Public Party of Patriots ) or with later ultranationalist movements with similar names.
literature
- Richard Sims: Japanese Political History Since the Meiji Renovation 1868-2000 . Palgrave Macmillan , New York 2001, ISBN 978-0-312-23914-5 .
Individual evidence
- ^ ME Sharpe: Introduction to Japanese Politics . 2009, ISBN 978-0-7656-2742-1 , pp. 67 .
- ↑ Thomas Weyrauch, The Party Landscape of East Asia , Longtai, Heuchelheim, 2018, ISBN 978-3-938946-27-5 , pp. 25 ff., 36 f .; 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/