Rikken Teiseitō

The Rikken Teiseitō (立憲帝政党, "Constitutional Imperial Rule Party") was a short-lived conservative political party in the Meiji period Empire of Japan.

The Teiseitō was founded in March 1882 by the editor of the Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun, Fukuchi Gen'ichirō, and a number of bureaucrats and conservative journalists as a political support group for the conservative Meiji oligarchy.

[1] It advocated a constitutional monarchy with a constitution, to be eventually granted by Emperor Meiji, an electoral franchise based on adult male property holders, and restrictions on freedom of speech and assembly.

It viewed the populist political parties, especially the Rikken Kaishintō and the Jiyūtō, as its main rivals.

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