Japan Labour-Farmer Party
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Japan Labour-Farmer Party
日本労農党 Nihonrōnōtō |
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 A Japan Labour-Farmer Party template poster, used to announce public meetings of the party. The symbol of the party appears on the shield, with a hammer and pick-axe, a red star, a globe and the letters NRNT, the Latin script abbreviation of the name of the party. |
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| Chairperson | Asō Hisashi |
| Secretary-General | Miwa Jusō |
| Founded | December 9, 1926 |
| Dissolved | December 1928 |
| Split from | Social Democratic Party |
| Merged into | Japan Masses Party |
| Labour wing | Japan Labour Union League |
| Women's wing | National Women's League |
| Peasants' wing | All-Japan Peasant Union |
| Membership (1927) | around 6,000 |
| Ideology | Socialism |
| Diet of Japan (1928) |
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The Japan Labour-Farmer Party (日本労農党 Nihonrōnōtō?) was a socialist political party in Japan between December 1926 and December 1928. During its existence, it occupied a centrist position in the divided socialist movement.
The Japan Labour-Farmer Party was one of several proletarian parties that existed in Japan in the late 1920s. It was founded in Tokyo on December 9, 1926, as a split from the Social Democratic Party (the founding occurred just four days after the founding of the Social Democratic Party). The split had both personal and ideological dimensions. Amongst the founders of the Japan Labour-Farmer Party were Asanuma Inejirō and his followers in the Japan Peasant Union and leftwing socialist intellectuals such as Asō Hisashi, Kono Mitsu, Suzuki Mosaburō, Tanahashi Kotora and Kato Kanju. Asō Hisashi became chairman of the party, whilst Miwa Jusō became its general secretary.
In terms of its programme, the party differed little from the Labour-Farmer Party (which, although having non-Communists amongst the ranks, was essentially controlled by the Japanese Communist Party). In fact several members of the Japan Labour-Farmer Party were former communists themselves (such as Kondo Eizo, the founder of the Enlightened People's Communist Party). However, in practice there was a clear political demarcation between the Japan Labour-Farmer Party and the Labour-Farmer Party. The Japan Labour-Farmer Party occupied a centrist position in the Japanese left at the time, between the Japanese Communist Party and the Labour-Farmer Party on the left and the Social Democratic Party on its right. The party sought to mobilize the working class masses in legal struggles. The party opposed Japanese intervention in China.
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