Social Democratic Party (Japan, 1901)


Social Democratic Party (社会しゃかい民主党みんしゅとう, Shakaiminshu-tō) was a political party in Japan that existed for one day before being banned by the government.[2][3][4] It was the first socialist party formed in Japan.[5]

Social Democratic Party
社会民主党
Japanese nameShakaiminshu-tō
FoundedMay 18, 1901 (1901-05-18)
DissolvedMay 20, 1901 (1901-05-20)
HeadquartersTokyo, Japan
IdeologySocialism[1]
Political positionLeft-wing

The party was founded by Kinoshita Naoe, Kiyoshi Kawakami, Kōnirō Nishikawa [ja], Sen Katayama, Abe Isoo, and Kōtoku Shūsui. Kinoshita and Katayama were nominated as administrative secretaries. When composing the platform, the founders took the platform of Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) as the reference. It followed an internationalist spirit in its Basic Program, like its German counterpart.[6] The first article of the platform of the social democratic party was "the aim of our party is to achieve socialism (in Japan)".[1][7] Five of the six men who founded the party were Christian.[8]

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  1. ^ a b 社会民主党(1901年結成). 朝日新聞社Kotobank. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
  2. ^ David John Lu (1997). Japan: A Documentary History. M.E. Sharpe. p. 366. ISBN 978-0-7656-0036-3.
  3. ^ Totten, George O. (1966). "The Social Democratic Movement in Prewar Japan". Studies on Japan's Social Democratic Parties. 1.
  4. ^ "新聞集成明治編年史編纂会編『新聞集成明治編年史 第11卷』林泉社、1940年、p.253". dl.ndl.go.jp. Retrieved 2023-01-04.
  5. ^ Scalapino 1967, pp. 1.
  6. ^ Yagi, Kiichiro (October 12, 2003). "Social Democracy and Liberarism in the 20th Century Japan" (PDF). Hokkaido University. Retrieved 2022-11-06.
  7. ^ Kublin, Hyman (1952). "The Origins of Japanese Socialist Tradition". The Journal of Politics. 14 (2): 257–280. doi:10.2307/2126522. ISSN 0022-3816. JSTOR 2126522. S2CID 154811958.
  8. ^ Scalapino 1967, pp. 1–2.

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