New Fraternity Party

New Fraternity Party 新党友愛 Shintō Yūai
President	Kansei Nakano
Founder	Kansei Nakano
Founded	1 January 1998
Dissolved	27 April 1998
Split from	New Frontier
Merged into	Democratic (1998)
Ideology	Pro-Minsha kyōkai Social democracy
Political position	Centre to centre-left
Website
https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.shinto-yuuai.com/
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The New Fraternity Party (新党友愛, Shintō Yūai) 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. The party has political roots in Minsha kyōkai, and Minsha kyōkai is now the main political factions of the centrist DPP.

The name has its origins in the Taishō period democratic movements, which used the word yūai (fraternity) as a motto. The party also claimed that yūai 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 Kansei Nakano, now a member of the Democratic Party.

In April 1998, the New Fraternity Party merged with the Good Governance Party, the previous Democratic Party (1996) and the Democratic Reform Party (民主改革連合, Minshu-Kaikaku-Rengō) to form the brand-new Democratic Party (1998).

Presidents of NFP

No.	Name	Term of office
		Took Office	Left Office
Preceding parties: New Frontier Party
1	Kansei Nakano	5 January 1998	24 April 1998
Successor party: Democratic Party (1998)

See also

• Democratic Socialist Party (Japan)