The was a Japanese political party that existed in early 1998. It was founded by Diet members that broke away from the New Frontier Party in January 1998. The party has political roots in '' Minsha kyōkai'', and ''Minsha kyōkai'' is now the main political factions of the centrist DPP. The name has its origins in the Taishō period democratic movements, which used the word ''yūai'' (''

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'') as a motto. The party also claimed that ''yūai'' had a phonetic similarity to the English "you and I", representing their hope of cooperating with ordinary Japanese. The party was led by

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member

Kansei Nakano is a retired Japanese politician. He was a member of the Democratic Party of Japan and served as the Vice-Speaker of the Lower House of the Diet. Nakano was born in 1940 in Nagasaki. At age four, he experienced the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. I ...

, now a member of the Democratic Party. In April 1998, the New Fraternity Party merged with the

Good Governance Party The was a Japanese political party which was in existence for a short period in early 1998. It was a centrist, reformist party that merged with other parties in April 1998 to form the Democratic Party of Japan. There was an earlier pre-war ''Min ...

, the previous Democratic Party (1996) and the to form the brand-new Democratic Party (1998).

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