Liberal Party of Japan (1881)

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The first Liberal Party of Japan, known as Jiyu-to in Japan, was formed in 1881, by Itagaki Taisuke, whose Aikokusha had dissolved once it was defeated by Ito Hirobumi's Conservative Party of Japan (1880).

The party was Japan's historic liberal party, and was a left-wing, liberal party. It was based on French republican ideals and the policies of Rousseau. It was comprised of mostly former samurai who were discontent because they were no longer an elite class and no longer received stipends from the government. The Jiyu-to aimed for suffrage for samurai and an elected assembly in each prefecture. It dissolved in the late 1880s, and broke up into the Constitutional Liberal Party (Japan) and the Constitutional Progressive Party.

It was quite popular, but is now defunct.