New Fraternity Party

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New Fraternity Party
新党友愛
Shintō Yūai
PresidentKansei Nakano
FounderKansei Nakano
Founded1 January 1998
Dissolved27 April 1998
Split fromNew Frontier Party
Merged intoDemocratic Party of Japan
IdeologyPro-Minsha kyōkai
Yūai ideology
Political positionCentre
Website
https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.shinto-yuuai.com/

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. The party has political roots in Minsha kyōkai, and Minsha kyōkai is now the main political factions of the centrist DPP.[1]

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).[2]

Presidents of NFP[edit]

No. Name Image 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[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ 政治資金収支報告書 友愛協会 令和2年度 (official website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications)
  2. ^ Hoover, William D. (2011). Historical Dictionary of Postwar Japan. The Scarecrow Press. p. xxxvii. ISBN 9780810854604.
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