People's Constitutional Party
| People's Constitutional Party | |||
| Rikken Kokumintō | |||
| Party leader (?) | Inukai Tsuyoshi | ||
| founding | March 14, 1910 | ||
| resolution | September 1, 1922 | ||
| Headquarters | Tokyo | ||
The Constitutional People's Party ( 立憲国民党 in contemporary writing 立憲國民黨 ; Rikken Kokumintō shortly Kokumintō ; English Constitutional Nationalist Party , also Constitutional People's Party ) was a political party in the Japanese Empire .
history
The People's Constitutional Party was founded on March 14, 1910 by the merger of the Kensei Hontō with a number of smaller political parties and groups within the House of Representatives , the lower house of the Japanese National Assembly , and led by Inukai Tsuyoshi . The party campaigned for the creation of a constitution, universal male suffrage for adults, and increased spending on the Imperial Japanese Navy . Above all, the party took a stand against the power and influence of the Genrō and the Meiji oligarchy . In the House of Representatives elections in 1912, the new party secured 95 seats, making it the second largest party in the House of Representatives after the Rikken Seiyūkai , which supported the ruling second Saionji cabinet .
In January 1913, the party lost many seats as a result of a split. About half of the MPs joined the Rikken Dōshikai , which had been founded by Katsura Tarō . In the parliamentary elections in 1915, the People's Constitutional Party managed to keep only 27 seats. Although the party was able to recover to 35 seats in the parliamentary elections in 1917, it dropped to only 29 seats in the parliamentary elections in 1920.
In September 1922 the People's Constitutional Party dissolved. Many of its former members formed the core of the new Kakushin Club ( 革新 倶 楽 部 , "Reformist Club", English Reformist Club ), which was also headed by Inukai Tsuyoshi.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chushichi Tsuzuki: The Pursuit of Power in Modern Japan, 1825-1995 . Oxford University Press , 2000, ISBN 0-19-820589-9 , pp. 532 .
- ^ Richard Sims: Japanese Political History Since the Meiji Renovation 1868-2000 . Palgrave Macmillan , New York 2001, ISBN 0-312-23915-7 , pp. 100 .