Kakushin Club

Masakazu Sekiguchi Hiroyuki Nagahama Yukihiko Imasaki Kazuo Ueda

[1] Dominated by the influence of Inukai Tsuyoshi, the Kakushin Club was the most democratic party of its age in Japan; it supported democratising politics by the immediate introduction of universal male suffrage and the election of prefectural governors.

It also supported reforms to the economy and education, and an internationalist foreign policy, and attracted attention due to the relatively high number of female members.

However, following the 1924 elections in which the Kakushin Club won 30 seats, it joined the coalition government led by the Kenseikai's Katō Takaaki, together with Rikken Seiyūkai.

In May 1925 the party split, with 18 Diet members joining Rikken Seiyūkai, eight merging with the Chūsei Club to form the Shinsei Club and the other two sitting as independents.