- Kenkokukai
The Kenkokukai(建国会) was a
Japan esesecret society founded in April 1926. It was formed byMotoyuki Takabatake (高畠素之), anationalist Marxist National Socialist ,Shinkithi Uesugi (上杉慎吉) andBin Akao (赤尾敏) of theNagoya Anarchists . It proclaimed for its object "the creation of a genuine people'sstate based on unanimity between the people and the emperor".Fact|date=February 2007 Itsstate socialist programme included the demand for "the state control of the life of the people in order that among Japanese people there should not be a single unfortunate nor unfully-franchised individual". The organisation embracedPan Asianism declaring "The Japanese people standing at the head of the coloured people, will bring the world a newcivilisation ."Fact|date=February 2007 It was at one time in favour ofuniversal suffrage .It worked in close contact with the police to break the miners strike in
Totsige , and other strikes in factories inKanegafuchi , tramway workers inTokyo and tenant farmers inGifu prefecture . In this period it had about 10,000 members. Wesugisoon withdrew in 1927, and Takabatake supporters left following his death in 1928.Toyoma Mitsuru , of theBlack Dragon Society (黒龍会) was appointed honorary chairperson, and Nagat a formerPolice Chief vice-chair. Others of this new influx included Ikyhara, Kida, Sugimoto. Akao was director of the league, which organised gangs of strike breakers and in 1928 bombed the soviet embassy. Their paper "Nippon Syugi" was virulently anti-communist with slogans such as "Death toCommunism , toRussia nBolshevism and to the Left parties and workers' unions".See also
List of Japanese nationalist movements and parties
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