Liberal Party (Japan, 1881) Liberal Party (Japan, 1881) The is the name of several liberal political parties in the history of Japan, two of which existed in the Empire of Japan prior to 1945. The first Liberal Party of Japan was formed on October 18, 1881, by Itagaki Taisuke and other members of the Freedom and People's Rights Movement (League for the Establishment of a National Assembly) to agitate for the establishment of a national assembly, with a membership based on the ideals of liberal democracy under a constitutional monarchy. It attracted a wide following of former "samurai" who were discontent because they were
Japan Farmers Party (1947–49) of Nakano Shirō, the chairman of the party's central committee, the party considered renaming itself the New Farmers Party. The 1949 general elections saw the party reduced to a single seat and it was disbanded thereafter, and effectively replaced by the New Farmers Party. Japan Farmers Party (1947–49) The Japan Farmers Party (, "Nihon Nōmintō") was a political party in Japan. The party was established by Katsutarō Kita and four independent MPs on 25 February 1947, Kita having previously formed the Japan Cooperative Party in August 1946. However, three of them, including Kita, were removed from the House of Representatives