The Archive · 1938

Nationalist Party Plan for Japan

Leaders Revive Scheme for Traditionalist Organ Tokyo, Feb. 5.

A movement aimed at the establishment of a totalitarian or national party by the amalgamation of existing political organizations has been revised by its backers to take the form of a campaign to promote "great Jepanism," or the spirit of "traditional Japanese culture."

'Among its leaders are Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, President of the Privy Council; Mr. Soho Tokutomi, "grand old man of Japanese journal ism," who is the editorial adviser of the "Osaka Mainichi" and the "Tokyo Nichi-Nichi' Gen. Baron Sadao Araki Cabinet Counsellor and Mr. Shinji Shiono, Minister of Justice—Domei,

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