New Fraternity Party
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The New Fraternity Party (新党友愛 Shinto Yuai) was a Japanese political party that existed in early 1998. It was founded by Diet members that broke away from the New Frontier Party in January 1998. It was a liberal party espousing various left of centre causes.
The name has its origins in the Taisho era democracy movements, which used the word yuai (fraternity) as a motto. The party also claimed that yuai had a phonetic similarity to the English "you and I", representing their hope of cooperating with ordinary Japanese.
The party was led by Lower House member Nakano Kansei, now a member of the Democratic Party .
In April 1998, the New Fraternity Party merged with the Good Governance Party, the Democratic Party of Japan (1996) and the Democratic Reform Party(民主改革連合, Minshu-Kaikaku-Rengo) to form the Democratic Party .
