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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

nationalist movement) Collaboration with Imperial Japan East Asia Development Board Imperial Rule Assistance Association List of East Asian leaders in the Japanese...

led the group to make the decision to dissolve into the Imperial Rule Assistance Association. Some members also promoted the future political integration...

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

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

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

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...

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

percentage of candidates and seats to women. The party maintains that imperial succession should be limited to the male line. In 2023, Kamiya proposed...

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

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

Okinawa, local Okinawans were only killed by U.S. soldiers and not the Imperial Japanese Army. The claim caused uproar in Okinawa, as a lot of Okinawan...

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...

(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...

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

prevent a rise of socialism or other movements that might threaten Imperial rule. Socialist parties would not be represented in significant numbers in...

succession of the Imperial throne while considering re-royalisation of former Imperial household members. Introduction of the "2:1 rule", requiring two...

Seiyūkai in the final years of party rule and during the rise of the military (1927–1940) Imperial Rule Assistance Association (1940–1945) Japanese Liberal Party...

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...