Nippon Kaigi
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| Formation | May 30, 1997 |
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| Founder | Koichi Tsukamoto |
| Founded at | Tokyo, Japan |
| Merger of | Nihon wo mamoru Kai(1974) and Nihon wo mamoru Kokumin Kaigi(1981) |
| Legal status | Active |
| Headquarters | Tokyo, Japan |
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Membership
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38,000 |
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Official language
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Japanese |
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Chairman
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Tadae Takubo |
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Secretary General
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Yuzo Kabashima |
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Honorable Chairman
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Toru Miyoshi |
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Adviser
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Koichiro Ishii Michihisa Kitashirakawa Naotake Takatsukasa |
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Key people
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Iwao Ando |
| Affiliations | Nippon Kaigi National Lawmakers Friendship Association |
| Slogan | Hokori aru kuni zukuri he (誇りある国づくりへ?, "Toward Make a Monarchy With Pride") |
| Mission | Revision of the Constitution of Japan, change the postwar national consciousness based on the Tokyo Tribunal's view of history |
| Website | http://www.nipponkaigi.org/ |
The Nippon Kaigi (日本会議?, "Japan Conference") is a Japanese nationalist non-political party and State Shinto-advocating religious organization that was established in 1997 and has approximately 38,000 members. The group is influential in the legislative and executive branches of the Japanese government through its affiliates.Shinzō Abe, the Prime Minister of Japan, serves as a special advisor to the group's parliamentary league.
The group 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 the current Constitution," and sees its mission to promote patriotic education, the revision of the Constitution of Japan, and support for prime ministers' official visits to Yasukuni Shrine.
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." Nippon Kaigi supports revising the Japanese Constitution, especially Article 9 which forbids a standing army.
Nippon Kaigi has described six official goals of the organization as:
Some have claimed that Nippon Kaigi believes that "Japan should be applauded for liberating much of East Asia from Western colonial powers; that the 1946–1948 Tokyo War Crimes tribunals were illegitimate; and that killings by Imperial Japanese troops during the 1937 Nanjing massacre were exaggerated or fabricated". The group vigorously defends Japan's claim in its territorial dispute over the Senkaku Islands with China, and denies that Japan forced the "comfort women" into sexual slavery during World War II. Nippon Kaigi fights against feminism, LGBT rights, and the 1999 Gender Equality Law.
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