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Imperial Rule Assistance Association 大政翼贊會Taisei Yokusankai | |
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Founder | Fumimaro Konoe[1] |
Founded | 12 October 1940 |
Dissolved | 13 June 1945 |
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Succeeded by | Volunteer Corps |
Headquarters | Chiyoda, Tokyo, Empire of Japan[2] |
Youth wing | Great Japan Youth Party |
Women's wing | Greater Japan Women's Association[3][4] |
Paramilitary wing | Young Men's Corps[5][6] |
Ideology | Statism |
Religion | State Shintō |
Political wing | Imperial Rule Assistance Political Association[10] |
Colours | Red White |
Anthem | Taisei Yokusan no Uta[11] |
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Kana | たいせいよくさんかい | ||||
Kyūjitai | 大政翼贊會 | ||||
Shinjitai | 大政翼賛会 | ||||
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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 political organization during much of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. It was created by Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe on 12 October 1940, to promote the goals of his Shintaisei ("New Order") movement. It evolved into a "statist" ruling political party which aimed at removing sectionalism and factionalism from politics and economics in the Empire of Japan, creating a totalitarian one-party state in order to maximize the efficiency of Japan's total war effort against China and later the Allies.[12] When the organization was launched officially, Konoe was hailed as a "political savior" of a nation in chaos; however, internal divisions soon appeared.
Conservatives such as Hiranuma Kiichiro, who served as prime minister for eight months in 1939, objected that the proposed totalitarian IRAA was nothing but a "new shogunate" that would usurp the power of the emperor's government, and Japanists declared that the national polity, the hallowed kokutai, already united the emperor with subjects who naturally fulfilled their sacred obligation to "assist imperial rule." On a more mundane plane, senior officials within the Home Ministry feared the loss of bureaucratic turf and complained that the proposed network of occupationally based units would interfere with local administration at a particularly crucial time in the nation's history.
.2 All existing political parties "voluntarily" dissolved themselves, replaced by a single authorized political body, the ultranationalist Imperial Rule Assistance Association.
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