Greater Japan Patriotic Party

Greater Japan Patriotic Party
大日本愛国党
FounderBin Akao
Founded1951 (1951)
HeadquartersTokyo, Japan
Ideology
Political positionRight-wing[2] to far-right[6]
Website
http://aikokutou.net/
A Greater Japan Patriotic Party sound truck positioned in front of Yasukuni Shrine

The Greater Japan Patriotic Party (大日本愛国党, Dai Nippon Aikokutō), frequently abbreviated to Aikokutō (愛国党, Aikokutō), is a minor Japanese ultranationalist political party founded in 1951 by Bin Akao, a nationalist leader who had served in the House of Representatives during World War II.[7] The party advocates for the remilitarisation of Japan and the revision of its constitution, and supports the strengthening of the United States-Japan alliance.[8] During the Cold War, the party also supported the formation of an Asian anti-communist alliance.[8]

Otoya Yamaguchi, who assassinated Inejirō Asanuma of the Japan Socialist Party in 1960, was a member of the Aikokutō,[9] as was Kazutaka Komori, who perpetrated the Shimanaka incident in 1961.[10] Party leader Akao was arrested for conspiracy to murder in the wake of the Shimanaka incident, but was not indicted due to lack of evidence; instead, he was sentenced to eight months in prison for the lesser charges of disturbing the peace and intimidation.[11]

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  1. ↑ 木下半治 (October 27, 2007). 日本のファシズム [Fascism in Japan]. 国書刋行会. p. 319. ... を改組して「大日本愛国党」とした。赤尾のほか、浅沼美知雄(浅沼稲次郎と同郷の三宅島出身)が幹部をしている。極端な反共親米主義であって、主たる活動方式は、いわゆる『ビラ貼り闘争"であり、都心部のいたるところに「愛国党」のビラを張り ... [... was reorganized into the Greater Japan Patriotic Party. In addition to Akao, Michio Asanuma (who, like Inajiro Asanuma, hailed from Miyakejima) serves as an executive. Holding an extreme anti-communist and pro-American stance, their primary method of activity is the so-called 'flyer-pasting campaign,' pasting 'Patriotic Party' flyers all over the city center ...]
  2. ↑ Kapur 2018, p. 257; Siniawer 2008, p. 165; Stevens 2018, p. 48.
  3. ↑ 石井修 (March 27, 2007). Japanese Internal Affairs as Seen by the American Diplomats 1960. 柏書房. p. 212. A member of the Dai Nippon Aikokuto (Greater Japan Patriotic Party--an ultra-rightist organization) who had mingled with photographers in the front row had leaped on the stage with a yellow smoke flare in hand in a publicity-seeking stunt typical of the extreme right.
  4. ↑ "University of California, Berkeley. Institute of International Studies". Asian Survey: Volume 12. University of California Press. 1972. p. 720. ... extreme right-wing groups, the Aikokuto (the Great Japan Patriots' Party) ...
  5. ↑ Kenneth J. Ruoff (March 23, 2020). The People’s Emperor: Democracy and the Japanese Monarchy, 1945-1995. Brill. p. 10. One important example of an extreme right group was the DaiNihon Aikokutō (Greater Japan Patriot Party) as led by the virulent nationalist Akao Bin (1899-1990).
  6. ↑ [3][4][5]
  7. ↑ Kapur 2018, p. 154, 252; Siniawer 2008, p. 227.
  8. 1 2 Siniawer 2008, p. 227.
  9. ↑ Kapur 2018, p. 252-253.
  10. ↑ Kapur 2018, p. 257.
  11. ↑ "High Court Upholds Sentence of Akao". The Japan Times. Tokyo. October 24, 1962. p. 4.

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