{{short description|Former political party in Japan}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}} {{Infobox political party | name = New Fraternity Party<br />{{nobold|{{Nihongo2|新党友愛}}}} | native_name = {{lang|ja-Latn|Shintō Yūai}} | logo = New Fraternity Party logo.svg | leader = | chairman = | president = Kansei Nakano | secretary_general = | spokesperson = | founder = Kansei Nakano | foundation = 1 January 1998 | dissolved = 27 April 1998 | split = New Frontier Party | merged = Democratic Party of Japan | predecessor = | merger = | headquarters = | newspaper = | youth_wing = | membership_year = | membership = | ideology = Pro-''Minsha kyōkai''<br>''Yūai'' ideology | position = Centre | national = | international = | colors = | colorcode = turquoise | website = {{URL|https://web.archive.org/web/19981111183437/http://www.shinto-yuuai.com/|www.shinto-yuuai.com}}<br />(Archived 11 November 1998) | country = Japan }} The {{nihongo|'''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.<ref>[https://www.soumu.go.jp/senkyo/seiji_s/seijishikin/contents/SS20211126/321420.pdf 政治資金収支報告書 友愛協会 令和2年度] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220616074007/https://www.soumu.go.jp/senkyo/seiji_s/seijishikin/contents/SS20211126/321420.pdf |date=16 June 2022 }} (official website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications)</ref>
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 {{nihongo|Democratic Reform Party|民主改革連合|Minshu-Kaikaku-Rengō}} to form the brand-new Democratic Party (1998).<ref>{{cite book|title=Historical Dictionary of Postwar Japan|publisher=The Scarecrow Press|date=2011|last=Hoover|first=William D.|page=xxxvii|isbn=9780810854604}}</ref>
==Presidents of NFP== {|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" |- !rowspan=2|No. !rowspan="2"|Name !rowspan="2"|Image !colspan=2|Term of office |- !Took office !Left office |- |bgcolor="lightblue" colspan="5"|'''Preceding parties: New Frontier Party''' |- |1 |Kansei Nakano |100px |5 January 1998 |24 April 1998 |- |bgcolor="lightblue" colspan="5"|'''Successor party: Democratic Party (1998)''' |}
==See also== *Democratic Socialist Party (Japan)
==References== {{Reflist}} Category:1998 disestablishments in Japan Category:1998 establishments in Japan Category:Centrist parties in Japan Category:Defunct political parties in Japan Category:Defunct social democratic parties Category:Fraternities Category:Political parties disestablished in 1998 Category:Political parties established in 1998 Category:Social democratic parties in Japan {{Japan-party-stub}}