Liberal Party (自由党 Jiyūtō) is the name of five different political parties in different time periods in Japan.
They are:
- Liberal Party of Japan (1881), founded by Itagaki Taisuke in October 1881. The party stood for popular rights and espoused the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The main objective of the party in the beginning was the establishment of a constitution. The party was an offspring of the Aikokusha.
- Liberal Party, founded in 1890, which became the Liberal Constitution Party later that year
- Liberal Party, formed from the LCP in 1891, merged with the Shinpotō into the Kenseitō in 1898
- Liberal Party (1945), founded by Ichirō Hatoyama in 1945. In 1946, Yoshida Shigeru formed the first Liberal cabinet after Hatoyama purged. From 1948 to 1950, the Liberal Party merged with a part of the Democratic Party (1947) to form the Democratic Liberal Party. Then, in 1950, it returned to the name of Liberal Party and in 1955, it merged with the Japan Democratic Party (1954) to form the Liberal Democratic Party.
- Liberal Party (1998), founded in 1998 from the remnants of the Shinshinto. It merged with the Democratic Party of Japan in 2003.
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