Dōshi Club (1947–48) Explained

Dōshi Club
Native Name:	同志クラブ
Colorcode:	FF0000
Founded:	28 November 1947
Dissolved:	12 March 1948
Split:	Democratic Party
Merged:	Democratic Liberal Party
Ideology:	Conservatism^[1]
Country:	Japan

The Dōshi Club (lit. Fellow Thinkers Club) was a political party in Japan.

History

The party was established by Kijūrō Shidehara on 28 November 1947 as a breakaway from the Democratic Party.^[2] Its 22 MPs were opposed to the government's coal nationalisation law being pushed by Tetsu Katayama's government, which the DP was willing to make concessions over.^[2]

In March 1948 it merged with the Liberal Party and another faction from the Democratic Party to form the Democratic Liberal Party.

Notes and References

1. Book: Theodore McNelly . Contemporary Government of Japan . In the meantime, during the controversy over coal nationalization in 1947, Shidehara and some friends left the Democratic Party to form the conservative Doshi Club. . 1963 . 118 . Houghton Mifflin .
2. Haruhiro Fukui (1985) Political parties of Asia and the Pacific, Greenwood Press, p493