Reimeikai

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{{nihongo|Reimeikai|黎明会||lit., "Dawn Society" or "Society for Enlightenment"}} was a Japanese "educational society" formed in Japan's Taishō period.Kodansha. (1983). "Reimeikai," in [https://books.google.com/books?id=p4DrAAAAMAAJ&q=reimeikai+ Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan, Vol. 6], p. 288. The members declared themselves committed "to strive for the stabilization and enrichment of the life of the Japanese people in conformity with the new trends of the postwar world."Smith, Henry DeWitt. (1972). {{Google books|9IDU-yYcXboC|Japan's First Student Radicals, p. 52.|page=52}}

In December 1918, the group was formed in order to sponsor public lectures.Marshall, Byron K. (1992). {{Google books||Academic Freedom and the Japanese Imperial University, 1868-1939, p. 96.|page=96}} Its founders included Yoshino Sakuzō and Fukuda Tokuzō. Reimeikai's membership supported universal suffrage and freedom of assembly. Also, they advocated less restrictions on the right to strike. The group came together "to propagate ideas of democracy among the people."Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Reimeikai" in {{Google books|p2QnPijAEmEC|Japan Encyclopedia, p. 785|page=785}}. The group dissolved in 1920.Smith, {{Google books|9IDU-yYcXboC|p. 45.|page=45}}

It is not to be confused with the Owari Tokugawa Reimeikai Foundation, often just called the "Reimeikai Foundation".