was a Japanese "educational society" formed in Japan's
Taishō period. The members declared themselves committed "to strive for the stabilization and enrichment of the life of the Japanese people in conformity with the new trends of the postwar world."
In December 1918, the group was formed in order to sponsor public lectures. Its founders included
Yoshino Sakuzō and
Fukuda Tokuzō. Reimeikai's membership supported universal suffrage and freedom of assembly. Also, they advocated less restrictions on the right to strike. The group came together "to propagate ideas of democracy among the people." The group dissolved in 1920.
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It is not to be confused with the
Owari Tokugawa Reimeikai Foundation, often just called the "Reimeikai Foundation".
See also
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Nitobe Inazo Nitobe is the surname of a Japanese Samurai family and refers to:
* Nitobe Inazō
** ''Nitobe Bunka College'', named after Inazō
** ''Nitobe Memorial Garden'', named after Inazō
* Nitobe Jūjirō
* Nitobe Koretami
* Nitobe Tsutō
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Yosano Akiko
Yosano Akiko (Shinjitai: , seiji: ; 7 December 1878 – 29 May 1942) was the pen-name of a Japanese author, poet, pioneering feminist, pacifist, and social reformer, active in the late Meiji era as well as the Taishō and early Shōwa eras of ...
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References
* Marshall, Byron K. (1992). ''Academic Freedom and the Japanese Imperial University, 1868-1939.'' Berkeley: University of California Press.
OCLC 25130703* Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005)
''Japan encyclopedia.''Cambridge:
Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing. It is a member of the Association of American University Presses. After the reti ...
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OCLC 58053128* Smith, Henry DeWitt. (1972). ''Japan's First Student Radicals.'' Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
OCLC 185405235
Taishō period
1918 establishments in Japan
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