Ryokufūkai

The Ryokufūkai ( Japanese 緑 風 会 , dt. About: "Summer Wind Assembly") was a faction in the Sangiin , the Japanese House of Lords. It was one of the strongest groups in the first few years after the establishment of the Sangiin under the post-war constitution of 1947 .

The Ryokufūkai was created through the amalgamation of parts of the independents, who made up 111 of the total of 250 members after the first election . The founders included a number of former members of the Kizokuin , the mansion, around Yamamoto Yūzō , as well as some moderate socialists such as Wada Hiroo . Even if rather conservative politicians dominated, the Ryokufūkai had a centrist, impartial self-image and tried to avoid ideological escalation by naming it. At first it was the strongest parliamentary group with over 90 seats at times, and Matsudaira Tsuneo was the first president of the Sangiin, but fell behind the other parliamentary groups in the subsequent elections. After the party system stabilized in the polarization of the Liberal Democratic Party and the Socialist Party of Japan from 1955 , the Ryokufūkai consisted of only a few MPs and dissolved after the Sangiin election in 1965 .

Some later associations of non-party MPs also called themselves Ryokufūkai; Shinryokufūkai , founded in 1994, also ties in with the name.