Tōseiha
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The Tōseiha or '''' was a loose political coalition in the Imperial Japanese Army active in the 1920s and 1930s. The term Tōseiha was not a self-designated name; it was a pejorative label coined by their rivals in the revolutionary Kōdōha (Imperial Way Faction) to describe the generally conservative officers who opposed their spiritual radicalism and aggressive anti-modernization ideals. Often associated with leaders such as Lieutenant General Tetsuzan Nagata (until his assassination in 1935) and Hideki Tojo, the coalition was primarily alleged to favor maintaining Japanese imperialism under t
Key facts
- Militant organization.name
- Control Faction
- Militant organization.logo
- Tessan Nagata 2.jpg
- Militant organization.caption
- Lieutenant General Tetsuzan Nagata was the leader of the Tōseiha until his assassination in the Aizawa Incident in August 1935.
- Militant organization.native_name
- 統制派
- Militant organization.native_name_lang
- ja
- Militant organization.foundation
- 1920s
- Militant organization.motives
- Reform of the Japanese government
- Militant organization.ideology
- Authoritarian conservatismMilitarism (Japanese)
- Militant organization.opponents
- Imperial Way Faction
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- political faction
- Part of
- Imperial Japanese Army
- Country
- Empire of Japan
- Conflict
- World War II
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- Commons category
- Control Faction
- inception
- 1920-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Background
- Conspiracy Theory
- Opposition
- Decline
- See also
- References
- Notes
The Tōseiha or '''' was a loose political coalition in the Imperial Japanese Army active in the 1920s and 1930s. The term Tōseiha was not a self-designated name; it was a pejorative label coined by their rivals in the revolutionary Kōdōha (Imperial Way Faction) to describe the generally conservative officers who opposed their spiritual radicalism and aggressive anti-modernization ideals. Often associated with leaders such as Lieutenant General Tetsuzan Nagata (until his assassination in 1935) and Hideki Tojo, the coalition was primarily alleged to favor maintaining Japanese imperialism under the rule of law and prioritizing military modernization with the existing state bureaucracy to prepare for total war. During the February 26 Incident in 1936, the Kōdōha assassinated alleged members of the Toseiha faction in hopes of starting a revolution, but this failed; the Kōdōha was dissolved and its leadership was purged.
== Background ==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tōseiha” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.