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