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![[Great Japan Youth Party (Japan)]](../images/j/jp}gjyp.gif)
image by Tomislav Todorović, 02 May 2014
Great Japan Youth Party (Dai Nippon Seinen-tō, later renamed Great Japan Sincerity Association
(Dai Nippon Sekisei-kai), was founded in 1937 by Colonel Kingoro
Hashimoto during his temporary forced retirement from military service
because of the involvement in February 26 Incident, attempted coup
d'etat of 1936. The organization was modeled after the Hitler Youth
and its goal was turning japan into a single-party totalitarian state
modeled after the Third Reich. In 1940, it was grouped with other
nationalist movements into the Imperial Rule Assistance Association
(Taisei Yokusankai), where it served as the youth wing, albeit largely
defunct due to mass mobilization of its would-be members into the
military. The organization was dissolved in 1945 after the
capitulation of Japan and Hashimoto was sentenced to life
imprisonment.
Sources:
- Great Japan Youth Party at Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Japan_Youth_Party
- Biography of Kingoro Hashimoto at Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingoro_Hashimoto
- Biography of Kingoro Hashimoto (in Japanese), including photos related to the
Great Japan Youth Party:
http://voicejapan2.heteml.jp/janjan/living/0610/0610152767/1.php (Image
1), (Image
2), (Image
3)
- Photos of the Great Japan Youth Party membership card and other documents:
http://cb1100f.b10.coreserver.jp/collection_1n.html (Image
1), (Image 2),
(Image 3)
Tomislav Todorović, 02 May 2014
The organization was modeled after the Hitler Youth, shared a number of
ideas with the Nazis, and was founded in the time when such a qualification
undoubtedly did have sense.
Tomislav Todorović, 03 May 2014
If we don't know the exact shade of red, then I'd say FF0000 is indeed
appropriate as generic red. Is there anything that can be said about the size of
the circle, compared to that on the national flags of the Third Reich and Japan?
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 04 May 2014
Nothing precisely, but the size shown in photos looked to me like that on the
Japanese flag, so I thought it is the safest to use, just like using R as the
generic red. BTW, once I read that, according to some opinions, the Nazi flag
was partly inspired by that of Japan, unfortunately retrieving that source is
virtually impossible for me now (cannot remember even where to look for), and I
just cannot form any opinion on its correctness.
Tomislav Todorović, 04 May 2014
It also looks like the "Cavalry flag of Inner
Mongolian Army supported by Japanese Army.", <cn_j_im.html>. That
flag suggests this design is from the same year. That makes you
wonder whether Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto had been connected to the actions in
Mongolia.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 02 June 2014
The flag of Great Japan Youth Party was derived either from that of the Third
Reich, by omitting the swastika, or from the Japanese national flag, by
reversing the colors, or possibly from both of these flags. The pattern was also
used on the armbands of the Nazi-style uniforms, as well as the decoration on
the official documents of the party.
Note: Regarding the shade of red, while Wikipedia uses a dark shade,
resembling the present shade which appears on the surviving documents (and is
also used for the Japanese national flag), the shade used here is the same as in
the FOTW image of Japanese national flag, as well as in most of the FOTW images
of Japanese ultra-rightist flags.
Tomislav Todorović, 02 May 2014
