It represented a rightist tendency amongst the proletarian parties in the country at the time.
An older generation of leaders of the Japan Peasant Union, such as Okabe Kansuke and Hirano Rikizo, were uncomfortable with the influence of the younger, radical generation in the Japan Peasant Union (who were keen on including leftwing elements in the Labour-Farmer Party), such as Oyama Ikuo.
[5] The party won four seats in the 1927 prefectural assembly elections of 1927.
The figure does however appear to be unreliable, compared to the national vote for the party in the elections the same year.
[7] The party launched ten candidates in the 1928 Diet election, whom together mustered 36,491 votes.