Reimeikai

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Reimeikai (黎明会, lit., "Dawn Society" or "Society for Enlightenment") was a Japanese "educational society" formed in Japan's Taishō period.[1] The members declared themselves committed "to strive for the stabilization and enrichment of the life of the Japanese people in conformity with the new trends of the postwar world."[2]

In December 1918, the group was formed in order to sponsor public lectures.[3] Its founders included Yoshino Sakuzō and Fukuda Tokuzō. Reimeikai's membership supported universal suffrage and freedom of assembly. Also, they advocated less restrictions on the right to strike. The group came together "to propagate ideas of democracy among the people."[4] The group dissolved in 1920.[5]

It is not to be confused with the Owari Tokugawa Reimeikai Foundation, often just called the "Reimeikai Foundation".

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Notes

  1. ^ Kodansha. (1983). "Reimeikai," in Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan, Vol. 6, p. 288.
  2. ^ Smith, Henry DeWitt. (1972). Japan's First Student Radicals, p. 52., p. 52, at Google Books
  3. ^ Marshall, Byron K. (1992). Academic Freedom and the Japanese Imperial University, 1868-1939, p. 96., p. 96, at Google Books
  4. ^ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Reimeikai" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 785, p. 785, at Google Books.
  5. ^ Smith, p. 45., p. 45, at Google Books

References

  • Marshall, Byron K. (1992). Academic Freedom and the Japanese Imperial University, 1868-1939. Berkeley: University of California Press.ISBN 9780520078215; OCLC 25130703
  • Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 58053128
  • Smith, Henry DeWitt. (1972). Japan's First Student Radicals. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674471856; OCLC 185405235


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