The Japan Farmers Party (, ''Nihon Nōmintō'') was a

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between 1926 and 1928. It represented a rightist tendency amongst the proletarian parties in the country at the time. The party had a

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orientation.

Split from the Labour-Farmer Party

The party emerged from a split in the

Labour-Farmer Party The was a political party in the Empire of Japan. It represented the left-wing sector of the legal proletarian movement at the time.Mackie, Vera C. Creating Socialist Women in Japan: Gender, Labour and Activism, 1900–1937'. Cambridge: Cambri ...

in 1926. An older generation of leaders of the Japan Peasant Union, such as Okabe Kansuke and Hirano Rikizo, were uncomfortable with the influence of the younger, radical generation in the Japan Peasant Union (who were keen on including leftwing elements in the Labour-Farmer Party), such as Oyama Ikuo. Okabe and Hirano's group broke away from the Labour-Farmer Party in March 1926 and on October 17, 1926, they founded the Japan Farmers Party. Scalapino, Robert A.
Democracy and the party movement in prewar Japan
'. 1975. p. 331Beckmann, George M., and Genji Okubo.
The Japanese Communist Party 1922–1945
'. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 1969. pp. 101–102 The Japan Farmers Party declared itself to be "a party by farmers, for farmers". In this sense the party differentiated itself from the other proletarian parties, which all declared themselves to be based on a worker-peasant class alliance.

1927

The party won four seats in the 1927 prefectural assembly elections of 1927.

1928 election

As of 1928, the Japan Farmers Party claimed a membership of 70,138. The figure does however appear to be unreliable, compared to the national vote for the party in the elections the same year. The party launched ten candidates in the 1928 Diet election, whom together mustered 36,491 votes. None of the candidates of the party were elected. Scalapino, Robert A.
The Japanese Communist Movement, 1920–1966
'. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967. p. 33

Merger into the Japan Masses Party

In December 1928 the party merged with the Proletarian Masses Party, the

Japan Labour-Farmer Party The was a socialist political party in Japan between December 1926 and December 1928. During its existence, it occupied a centrist position in the divided socialist movement. Foundation The Japan Labour-Farmer Party was one of several proleta ...

and four regional political parties, forming the Japan Masses Party.

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Industrial Labour in Japan
'. Japanese economic history, 1930–1960, v. 5. New York: Routledge, 2000. pp. 113–114Beckmann, George M., and Genji Okubo.
The Japanese Communist Party 1922–1945
'. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 1969. p. 173

References

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