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The '''Kenkokukai''' was a [[Japan]]ese [[secret society]] founded in [[April]] 1926. The '''Kenkokukai''' was a [[Japan]]ese [[secret society]] founded in [[April]] 1926. It was formed by [[Takabatake Motoyuki]], a [[nationalist]] [[Marxist]], Wesugi and [[Akao Bin]] of the [[Nagoya Anarchists]]. It proclaimed for its object "the creation of a genuine people's [[state]] based on unanimity between the people and the [[Japanese Emperor|emperor]]". It's [[state socialist]] programme included the demand for "the state control of the life of the people in order that among Japanese people there should not be a single unfortunate nor unfully-franchised individual". The organisation embraced [[Pan Asianism]] declaring "The Japanese people standing at the head of the [[Colored|coloured people]], will bring the world a new [[civilisation]]." It was at one time in favour of [[universal suffrage]].

The '''Kenkokukai''' (建国会/建國會, National Foundation Society) was a Japanese [[secret society]] founded by [[Bin Akao]] in April 1926. It was an [[anti-communist]] organisation, strongly influenced by the [[National Socialism]] of [[Motoyuki Takabatake]].

The predecessor of this association was the steering committee for the National Foundation Festival (建国祭), which was organized in opposition to [[International Workers' Day|May Day]]. It proclaimed its object to be "the creation of a genuine people's [[Sovereign state|state]] based on unanimity between the people and the [[Emperor of Japan|emperor]]".<ref name="Living Age">[https://books.google.com/books?id=ShcVAAAAMAAJ&q=Kenkokukai+secret+society The Living Age] Vol 350. Eliakim Littell and Robert S. Littell. 1936</ref> At its height, the organization reached a nationwide membership of around 120,000.

It worked in close contact with the police to break the miners strike in [[Totsige]], and other strikes in factories in [[Kanegafuchi]], tramway workers in [[Tokyo]] and tenant farmers in [[Gifu prefecture]]. In this period it had about 10,000 members. Wesugisoon withdrew in [[1927]], and Takabatake supporters left following his death in [[1928]]. [[Toyoma Mitsuru]], of the [[Black Dragon Society]] was appointed honorary chairperson, and Nagat a former [[Police Chief]] vice-chair. Others of this new influx included Ikyhara, Kida, Sugimoto. Akao was director of the league, which organised gangs of strike breakers and in [[1928]] bombed the [[USSR|soviet]] embassy. Their paper ''Nippon Syugi'' was virulently [[anti-communism|anti-commmunist]] with slogans such as Death to [[Communism]], to [[Russia]]n [[Bolshevism]] and to the [[Left wing|Left]] parties and workers' unions.

== People ==

See also [[List of Japanese nationalist movements and parties]]

[[File:Bin Akao.jpg|thumb|[[Bin Akao]], founder of Kenkokukai.]]

=== Founders ===

* President (理事長): [[Bin Akao]], a right-wing anarchist from [[Nagoya]], Pro-British and Pro-American political activist during and after [[World War II]]

* Chairperson (会長): [[Shinkichi Uesugi]] (professor of constitutional law at [[Imperial University of Tokyo]] and main advocate of ''[[Tenno Shukensetsu]]'' or Theory of Emperor Sovereignty)

* Secretary general (書記長): [[Tatsuo Tsukui]] [<nowiki/>[[:ja:津久井龍雄|ja]]] (national socialist activist, a disciple of Takabatake)

* [[Motoyuki Takabatake]], a national socialist theorist known for the first full Japanese (and east-asian) translation of [[Karl Marx]]'s ''[[Das Kapital]]''

=== Advisers and patron ===

* Adviser (顧問): Prime Minister [[Kiichirō Hiranuma]]

* Adviser (顧問): [[Mitsuru Toyama]], Founder of [[Black Ocean Society]]

* Gen. [[Sadao Araki]]

* [[Hidejirō Nagata]]

== Goals ==

The '''Kenkokukai''' was aIts [[Japan]]ese [[secret society]] founded in [[April]] 1926. The '''Kenkokukai''' was a [[Japan]]ese [[secret society]] founded in [[April]] 1926. It was formed by [[Takabatake Motoyuki]], a [[nationalist]] [[Marxist]], Wesugi and [[Akao Bin]] of the [[Nagoya Anarchists]]. It proclaimed for its object "the creation of a genuine people's [[state]] based on unanimity between the people and the [[Japanese EmperorStatism|emperor]]". It's [[state socialiststatist]] programmeprogram included the demand for "the state control of the life of the people in order that among Japanese people there should not be a single unfortunate nor unfully-franchised individual".<ref name="Living Age"/> The organisation embraced [[Pan -Asianism]] declaring "The Japanese people standing at the head of the [[Colored|colouredcolored people]], will bring the world a new [[civilisationcivilization]]."{{Cite quote|date=February 2007}} It was at one time in favourfavor of [[universal suffrage]].<ref name="Living Age"/>

ItThe Kenkokukai worked in close contactconcert with the police to break the miners strike in [[TotsigeStrike action|strike]] in Tochigi, and other strikes inby factoriesfactory workers in [[Kanegafuchi]], tramway workers in [[Tokyo]], and tenant farmers in [[Gifu prefecturePrefecture]]. In this periodUesugi it had about 10,000 members. Wesugisoonsoon withdrew in [[1927]], and Takabatake supporters left following his death in [[1928]]. This left the organization with only around 10,000 members. [[ToyomaTōyama Mitsuru]], (頭山満) of the [[Black Dragon Society]] (黒龍会) was appointed honorary chairperson, and NagatNagata, a former [[Chief of police|Police Chief]], vice-chair. Others of this new influx included IkyharaIkihara, Kida, and Sugimoto. Akao was director of the league, which organisedorganized gangs of strike breakers and in [[1928]] bombed the [[USSRSoviet Union|sovietSoviet]] embassy.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=v3aPAAAAMAAJ&q=Kenkokukai+ British documents on foreign affairs - Japan, January 1928-December 1929] Bourne, K & A, Trotter. 1991. pp48-49. Retrieved: 04/05/18</ref> Their paper ''Nippon SyugiNipponshugi'' was virulently [[antiAnti-communism|anti-commmunistcommunist]] with slogans such as "Death to [[Communism]], to [[Soviet Union|Russia]]n [[Bolsheviks|Bolshevism]], and to the [[Left -wing politics|Left]] parties and [[Trade union|workers' unions]]".

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