Dōshi Club (1947–48)
Political party in Japan
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The Dōshi Club (Japanese: 同志クラブ, lit. Fellow Thinkers Club) was a political party in Japan.
History
The party was established by Kijūrō Shidehara on 28 November 1947 as a breakaway from the Democratic Party.[2] Its 22 MPs were opposed to the government's coal nationalisation law being pushed by Tetsu Katayama's government, which the DP was willing to make concessions over.[2]
In March 1948 it merged with the Liberal Party and another faction from the Democratic Party to form the Democratic Liberal Party.
References
- ^ Theodore McNelly, ed. (1963). Contemporary Government of Japan. Houghton Mifflin. p. 118.
In the meantime, during the controversy over coal nationalization in 1947 , Shidehara and some friends left the Democratic Party to form the conservative Doshi Club.
- ^ a b Haruhiro Fukui (1985) Political parties of Asia and the Pacific, Greenwood Press, p493