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was one of the main
political parties in pre-war
Japan. It was also known as simply the ‘Minseitō’.
The Minseitō was founded on
1 June 1927, by the merger of the former
Kenseikai with the
Seiyu Honto, under the leadership of
Hamaguchi Osachi. It viewed the
Rikken Seiyukai as its main rival.
In the 1928 election, the Minseitō won 216 of the 464 seats in the lower house of
Diet of Japan, thus becoming the single most important party. Hamaguchi became
Prime Minister of Japan in 1929, and in the 1930 election, the party expanded its lead to 273 seats, thus obtaining an absolute majority. During its tenure, it advocated fiscal restraint, a conciliatory foreign policy, and ratified the
London Naval Agreement of 1930. However, after Hamaguchi was assassinated by a right-wing fanatic in 1930, second party president
Shidehara Kijuro was unable to maintain the party momentum.
Hamaguchi's successor, Prime Minister
Wakatsuki Reijiro was unable to control the military or to prevent the
Manchurian Incident, and his government collapsed in 1931.
The Minseitō lost its majority in Diet in the 1932 elections. It was able to recover its majority in the 1936 and 1937 elections only by adopting a more pro-military stance.
On
15 August 1940 the Minseitō voted to dissolve itself into the
Imperial Rule Assistance Association as part of
Hideki Tojo's efforts to create a
single-party state, and thereafter ceased to exist.
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