Japan Progressive Party

{{Infobox political party

| name = Japan Progressive Party

| native_name = 日本進歩党

| native_name_lang = ja

| country = Japan

| colorcode = {{party color|Japan Progressive Party}}

| logo =

| website =

| headquarters = Japan

| leader = Machida Chūji (first)
Kijūrō Shidehara (second)

| president =

| secretary_general =

| foundation = 16 November 1945{{cite web |url=https://kotobank.jp/word/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E9%80%B2%E6%AD%A9%E5%85%9A-110198#E3.83.96.E3.83.AA.E3.82.BF.E3.83.8B.E3.82.AB.E5.9B.BD.E9.9A.9B.E5.A4.A7.E7.99.BE.E7.A7.91.E4.BA.8B.E5.85.B8.20.E5.B0.8F.E9.A0.85.E7.9B.AE.E4.BA.8B.E5.85.B8 |script-title=ja:ブリタニカ国際大百科事典小項目事典の解説 |trans-title=The Encyclopædia Britannica: Micropædia 's explanation |access-date=November 19, 2020 |website=kotobank.jp |publisher=The Asahi Shimbun Company |language=ja }}{{cite web |url=https://kotobank.jp/word/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E9%80%B2%E6%AD%A9%E5%85%9A-110198#E6.97.BA.E6.96.87.E7.A4.BE.E6.97.A5.E6.9C.AC.E5.8F.B2.E4.BA.8B.E5.85.B8.20.E4.B8.89.E8.A8.82.E7.89.88 |script-title=ja:旺文社日本史辞典三訂版の解説 |access-date=March 3, 2021 |website=kotobank.jp |publisher=The Asahi Shimbun Company |language=ja }}

| dissolution = 31 March 1947

| predecessor = {{Nowrap|{{ill|Dainihon Seijikai|ja|大日本政治会}}}}

| merged = Democratic Party

| ideology = Conservatism
Anti-communism
Kokutai{{Cite web|title=日本進歩党(にほんしんぽとう)|url=http://www.historist.jp/word_j_ni/entry/036029/|website=Historist|date=2016|language=ja|accessdate=March 3, 2021}}
Controlled economy

| position = Right-wing{{cite web |last=Yoshida |first=Kenji |url=https://kotobank.jp/word/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E9%80%B2%E6%AD%A9%E5%85%9A-110198#E6.97.A5.E6.9C.AC.E5.A4.A7.E7.99.BE.E7.A7.91.E5.85.A8.E6.9B.B8.28.E3.83.8B.E3.83.83.E3.83.9D.E3.83.8B.E3.82.AB.29 |script-title=ja:日本大百科全書(ニッポニカ)の解説 |access-date=November 19, 2020 |trans-title=The Nihon Dai Hyakka Zensho: Nipponica 's explanation |website=kotobank.jp |publisher=The Asahi Shimbun Company |language=ja }}

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The {{nihongo|Japan Progressive Party|日本進歩党|Nihon Shinpotō|lead=yes}} was a political party in Japan.

History

The party was established on 16 November 1945 by a group of 273 MPs, of whom 89 had been Rikken Minseitō members and 46 from Rikken Seiyūkai; many had been elected with the backing of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association in the 1942 general elections.Haruhiro Fukui (1985) Political parties of Asia and the Pacific, Greenwood Press, pp522–524 Machida Chūji was appointed party president after the post was turned down by Keizo Shibusawa. Due to it high proportion of members involved in wartime politics, it was the most affected party in the post-war purge, with 238 MPs and all but one its central committee members barred from politics.

In the 1946 general elections the party won 110 seats, becoming the second-largest party in the House of Representatives. It was given four ministerial positions in the Liberal Party government led by Shigeru Yoshida, including Kijūrō Shidehara, who was selected as the party's new leader following the elections.

Talks later in the year with the Cooperative Democratic Party about a merger failed, as did efforts in February 1947 to negotiate a merger with the Liberal Party, although a few Liberal MPs led by Hitoshi Ashida subsequently joined the JPP, together with a group from the National Cooperative Party. At the end of March the decision was taken to dissolved the JPP and form the Democratic Party.