National Party (Japan)

Fukushiro Nukaga Kōichirō Genba

Masakazu Sekiguchi Hiroyuki Nagahama Yukihiko Imasaki Kazuo Ueda

A centrist party, its policies had a strong focus on education.

[1] The party was established in July 1946 as the Shinseikai (New Politics Society) by a merger of the Shinkō Club, some independent MPs and some MPs from the Preparatory Committee for the Japan Democratic Party,[2] which was subsequently dissolved.

[1] In March 1947 another attempt was made to merge with the Cooperative Democratic Party, which this time was successful, resulting in the creation of the National Cooperative Party.