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Dōshi Club (1947–48)
The Dōshi Club (Japanese: 同志クラブ, lit. Fellow Thinkers Club) was a political party in Japan.
Dōshi Club 同志クラブ | |
|---|---|
| Founded | 28 November 1947 |
| Dissolved | 12 March 1948 |
| Split from | Democratic Party |
| Merged into | Democratic Liberal Party |
| Headquarters | Tokyo, Japan |
| Ideology | Conservatism[1] |
History edit
The party was established by Kijūrō Shidehara on 28 November 1947 as a breakaway from the Democratic Party.[2] Its 22 MPs were opposed to the government's coal nationalisation law being pushed by Tetsu Katayama's government, which the DP was willing to make concessions over.[2]
In March 1948 it merged with the Liberal Party and another faction from the Democratic Party to form the Democratic Liberal Party.
References edit
- ^ Theodore McNelly, ed. (1963). Contemporary Government of Japan. Houghton Mifflin. p. 118.
In the meantime, during the controversy over coal nationalization in 1947 , Shidehara and some friends left the Democratic Party to form the conservative Doshi Club.
- ^ a b Haruhiro Fukui (1985) Political parties of Asia and the Pacific, Greenwood Press, p493
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