New Fraternity Party

The New Fraternity Party (新党友愛, Shintō Yūai) was a Japanese political party that existed in early 1998. It was founded by Diet members that broke away from the New Frontier Party in January 1998. It was a liberal party espousing various left of centre causes.

New Fraternity Party
新党友愛

Shintō Yūai
PresidentKansei Nakano
Founded1 January 1998
Dissolved27 April 1998
Split fromNew Frontier
Merged intoDemocratic (1998)
IdeologySocial democracy
Political positionCentre-left
Website
https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.shinto-yuuai.com/

The name has its origins in the Taishō period democratic movements, which used the word yūai (fraternity) as a motto. The party also claimed that yūai had a phonetic similarity to the English "you and I", representing their hope of cooperating with ordinary Japanese.

The party was led by Lower House member Kansei Nakano, now a member of the Democratic Party.

In April 1998, the New Fraternity Party merged with the Good Governance Party, the previous Democratic Party (1996) and the Democratic Reform Party (民主改革連合, Minshu-Kaikaku-Rengō) to form the brand-new Democratic Party (1998).[1]

Presidents of NFP

No. Name Term of office
Took Office Left Office
Preceding parties: New Frontier Party
1 Kansei Nakano 5 January 1998 24 April 1998
Successor party: Democratic Party (1998)

See also

References

  1. Hoover, William D. (2011). Historical Dictionary of Postwar Japan. The Scarecrow Press. p. xxxvii. ISBN 9780810854604.


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