The Imperial Rule Assistance Association (Japanese: 大政翼贊會/大政翼賛会, Hepburn: Taisei Yokusankai), or Imperial Aid Association, was the Empire of Japan's ruling...

The Imperial Rule Assistance Political Association (翼賛政治会, Yokusan seijikai), abbreviated to Yokuseikai or IRAPA, was the policymaking body set up within...

effectiveness. In 1940, it voted to dissolve itself into the Imperial Rule Assistance Association as part of Fumimaro Konoe's efforts to create a one-party...

Party. During World War II, Asanuma was aligned with the Imperial Rule Assistance Association and advocated for war in Asia. Asanuma later became a forceful...

the State General Mobilization Law and establishing the Imperial Rule Assistance Association while dissolving all other political parties. Born in Tokyo...

required to support imperial rule. Some objections to the founding of the Taisei Yokusankai (Imperial Rule Assistance Association) came on the grounds...

nationalistic and militaristic, and was absorbed into the Imperial Rule Assistance Association in 1940. Scalapino, Robert (1962). Democracy and the Party...

(founded in 1901) Kokumin Dōmei (1932–1940) Tōhōkai (1936–1945) Imperial Rule Assistance Association (1940–1945) Shinzo Abe Bin Akao Naoki Hyakuta Yoshio Kodama...

September 1940 by order of the Home Ministry (Japan) under Imperial Rule Assistance Association by the cabinet of Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe. Participation...

seats. In June 1940, The Kokumin Dōmei was merged into the Imperial Rule Assistance Association, and thereafter ceased to exist. Kenzo Kitagawa. "Explanation...

Shinto along with Heisuke Yanagawa, who directed the Government Imperial Aid Association. He restored the ancient sacred rites in the Sukumo river, near...

August 1940, the Minseitō voted to dissolve itself into the Imperial Rule Assistance Association as part of Fumimaro Konoe's efforts to create a one-party...

he joined the Imperial Rule Assistance Association and was appointed deputy chairman of the Imperial Rule Assistance Political Association. In 1944, he...

1940, all political parties were forced to merge into the Imperial Rule Assistance Association (Taisei Yokusankai), a pro-military political organization...

newspaper and later a politician. During the war, he joined the Imperial Rule Assistance Association. After the end of the war, he was purged from public service...

military family, Tojo was educated at the Imperial Japanese Army Academy and began his career in the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) in 1905. He served as...

All political parties were ordered to dissolve into the Imperial Rule Assistance Association, forming a one-party state based on totalitarian values....

evident in the Japanese press at this time. In 1940, the Imperial Rule Assistance Association was launched to provide political support to Japan's war...

implement a direct imperial rule, even if that meant suspending the constitution. With the launching of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association as a ruling...

The Imperial Seal of Japan or National Seal of Japan, also called the Chrysanthemum Seal (菊紋, kikumon), Chrysanthemum Flower Seal (菊花紋, 菊花紋章, kikukamon...

(大日本翼賛壮年団, Imperial Rule Assistance Young Men's Corps) was an elite paramilitary youth branch of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association political party...

involved in calling two unprecedented imperial conferences which helped resolve the split within the Japanese Imperial Cabinet over the Potsdam Declaration...

often to the throne. In order to effect the essence of genuine direct imperial rule and to relieve the concerns of the Emperor, the ministers reported to...

Sacred Treasures (三種の神器, Sanshu no Jingi/Mikusa no Kamudakara) are the imperial regalia of Japan and consist of the sword Kusanagi no Tsurugi (草薙劍), the...

saw the emergence of ultranationalist parties such as the Imperial Rule Assistance Association and the militarization of Japanese society, with conservative...

multiple nationalist and fascist parties before joining the Imperial Rule Assistance Association. Katsumaro Akamatsu was born in Tokuyama, Yamaguchi, on 4...

Sonendan of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association in Empire of Japan The Volunteer Fighting Corps of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association in Empire of...

The Imperial Japanese Armed Forces (IJAF, full Japanese: 帝国陸海軍, romanized: Teikoku riku-kaigun or Nippon-gun (日本軍) for short, meaning "Japanese Forces")...

representative from Mie Prefecture, with the backing of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association (IRAA), which was the sole political party in Japan under...

Fumimaro Konoe, when all remaining political parties joined the Imperial Rule Assistance Association. 1874: Aikoku Kōtō (Public Society of Patriots) founded 1881:...