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Political party in Japan
Kenseikai
憲政会
Leader
Katō Takaaki
Wakatsuki Reijirō
Founded
October 10, 1916 (1916-10-10)
Dissolved
June 27, 1927 (1927-06-27)
Merger of
Rikken Dōshikai
Chūseikai
Kōyū Club
Succeeded by
Rikken Minseitō
Headquarters
Tokyo
Politics of Japan
Political parties
Elections
Wakatsuki Reijirō at a Kenseikai meeting
The Kenseikai (憲政会, "Constitutional Politics Association") was a short-lived political party in the pre-war Empire of Japan.
The Kenseikai (憲政会, "Constitutional Politics Association") was a short-lived political party in the pre-war Empire of Japan. The Kenseikai was founded...
Japan on 10 May 1924. No party won a majority of seats, resulting in Kenseikai, Rikken Seiyūkai and the Kakushin Club forming the country's first coalition...
Japanese homeland. Unstable coalitions and divisiveness in the Diet led the Kenseikai (憲政会 Constitutional Government Association) and the Seiyū Hontō (政友本党...
proposals. In 1924, a Kenseikai alliance with the Seiyukai scored a victory over the non-party government of Kiyoura Keigo. Kenseikai leader Katō Takaaki...
strong opposition to the Seiyūkai (1913–1916) Constitutional Assembly (Kenseikai, the core group of the constitutional movement in the Taishō era (1916–1927)...
was reconstituted as the Kenseikai in 1916. From 1922 onwards, politics was a rivalry between the Seiyukai and the Kenseikai, rather than political parties...
Dōshikai political party led by Katō Takaaki in 1915, which became the Kenseikai in 1916. Hamaguchi was elected to the lower house in the Japanese Diet...
Friends of the Constitution), renamed Kenseikai (憲政会, Constitutional Politics Association) in 1916 1927: The Kenseikai merged with the ⇒ Seiyūhontō into the...
was promoted to the post of Kenseikai Secretary General and led the party in the general election of May 1924. The Kenseikai won a plurality of the seats...
the government. During the premiership of Kato Komei and his party, the kenseikai, Konoe supported universal male suffrage to forestall serious curtailment...
from the city of Tokyo include economist Taguchi Ukichi, Bukichi Miki, Kenseikai secretary-general in the 1920s and co-founder of Hatoyama's postwar Japan...
high number of female members. In 1923 the party held talks with the Kenseikai about a merger, but the two parties were unable to reach agreement over...
election Kenseitō or Constitutional Party, a political party in Japan Kenseikai or Constitutional Association, a political party in Japan Junimea, a Romanian...
of the Diet of Japan when faced with the three party coalition of the Kenseikai, Rikken Seiyūkai and Kakushin Club which had formed a majority in Diet...
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