Imperial Rule Assistance Association

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Imperial Rule Assistance Association 大政翼贊會 Taisei Yokusankai
President	Fumimaro Konoe (1940–1941) Hideki Tojo (1941–1944) Kuniaki Koiso (1944–1945) Kantarō Suzuki (1945)
Deputy President	Heisuke Yanagawa (1941) Kisaburo Ando (1941–1943) Fumio Gotō (1943–1944) Taketora Ogata (1944–1945)
Founder	Fumimaro Konoe[1]
Founded	12 October 1940; 83 years ago (12 October 1940)
Dissolved	13 June 1945; 78 years ago (13 June 1945)
Merger of	Rikken Seiyūkai Rikken Minseitō Kokumin Dōmei Shakai Taishūtō
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 [ja][3][4]
Paramilitary wing	Young Men's Corps[5][6]
Ideology	Statism Totalitarianism[7][8] Japanese imperialism Japanese militarism Japanese ultranationalism[9] National conservatism Pan-Asianism
Religion	State Shintō
Political wing	Imperial Rule Assistance Political Association[10]
Colours	Red   White
Anthem	Taisei Yokusan no Uta [ja][11]

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 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 in China.^[12] When the organization was launched officially, Konoe was hailed as a "political savior" of a nation in chaos; however, internal divisions soon appeared.