Japan Conference 日本会議 | |
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Chairman | (vacant) |
General Secretary | Yuzo Kabashima |
Advisers | Koichiro Ishii Michihisa Kitashirakawa Naotake Takatsukasa |
Key people | Iwao Ando |
Founder | Koichi Tsukamoto |
Founded | 30 May 1997 |
Merger of | Nihon wo mamoru Kokumin Kaigi Nihon wo mamoru Kai |
Headquarters | Vort Aobadai II, Aobadai, Meguro, Tokyo |
Membership | c. 38,000 – 40,000 (2020 est.)[1] |
Ideology | |
Political position | Far-right[20] |
Affiliations | Nippon Kaigi National Lawmakers Friendship Association |
Colours | Black Carmine |
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Nippon Kaigi (日本会議, lit. 'Japan Conference')[21] is Japan's largest ultraconservative[22] and ultranationalist far-right[23] non-governmental organization and lobbying group.[24] It was established in 1997 and has approximately 38,000 to 40,000 members as of 2020.[29]
The group has significant influence in Japanese politics. In October 2014, 289 of the 480 Japanese National Diet members were part of the group. Many ministers and a few prime ministers, including current prime minister Fumio Kishida,[30] Tarō Asō, Shinzō Abe, and Yoshihide Suga, were members.[31]
The organization describes its aims as to "change the postwar national consciousness based on the Tokyo Tribunal's view of history as a fundamental problem" and to revise Japan's current Constitution,[32] especially Article 9 which forbids the maintenance of a standing army.[33] The group also aims to promote patriotic education, support official visits to Yasukuni Shrine and promote a nationalist interpretation of State Shinto.[34][35][36][37] It also rejects that comfort women, recruited by Japan during World War II, were forced to work.
In the words of Hideaki Kase, an influential member of Nippon Kaigi, "We are dedicated to our conservative cause. We are monarchists. We are for revising the constitution. We are for the glory of the nation."[38]
A Tokyo court has ordered a publisher to suspend publication of a best-selling nonfiction book detailing links between the conservative Japan Conference (Nippon Kaigi) lobby and a religious group, saying it contains defamatory information.
TOKYO–The recent spate of western media articles on Nippon Kaigi – a conservative Japanese lobbying group (and somewhat akin to a "Political Action Committee" in America) associated with Prime Minister Abe — suggests Japan is heading for a police state, and soon afterwards will be looking overseas for somewhere to invade.
Also removed was a reference to ties by Abe and Aso to a conservative lobby group, Nippon Kaigi.
She is a member of the ultranationalist Nippon Kaigi organisation, which aims to restore the emperor to divine status, keep women at home, prioritise public order over civil liberties and rebuild Japan's armed forces.
He belongs to the ultranationalist Nippon Kaigi, which seeks to re-militarize Japan and to revive Imperial Japan and which, among other things, vehemently denies Japan's "comfort women" history during World War II.
... high degree of grassroots support from a number of nationalist and militaristic social groups such as the War Bereaved Association and Nippon Kaigi, ...
the reactionary group Nippon Kaigi (Japan Conference)—has been waging war over its shared past with China and South Korea on battlegrounds ranging from Yasukuni Shrine to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
Both have served as members of a nonpartisan group of lawmakers supporting far-right organization Japan Conference (Nippon Kaigi).
... Nippon Kaigi Parts of the Japanese establishment have ties with a large far-right voluntary organization, Nippon Kaigi (Japan Conference), whose ranks include grassroots members across the nation as well as national and local ...
In 1997 nationalist intellectuals, politicians and religious leaders formed the largest far-right advocacy group, Japan Conference (Nippon kaigi), formed as a result of the merger between the two ...
Every year far-right nationalist groups – including Nippon Kaigi – private citizens and government officials visit the Yasukuni Shrine. Many wear uniforms or clothing linked to the Imperial Army and display the Japanese imperial flag.
Abe's key ultra-conservative supporter, Nippon Kaigi, or Japan Conference, was among the organizers Saturday.
Abe and Kagoike, who has indicated he will resign as principal, both belong to an ultra-conservative lobby group whose members include more than a dozen cabinet ministers.
In 2008, she made an unsuccessful run at the LDP's chairmanship. Following her defeat, she worked to build an internal party network and became involved in a revisionist group of lawmakers that serves as the mouthpiece of the ultraconservative Nippon Kaigi ("Japan Conference") movement.
Parts of the Japanese establishment have ties with a large far-right voluntary organization, Nippon Kaigi (Japan Conference), whose ranks include grassroots members across the nation as well as national and local politicians...
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