Kaikosha - Kaikosha

It was founded in February 1877 (Meiji 10) as an organization for the purpose of promoting friendship among officers of the former Japanese Army and conducting military research. In particular, when the military system of the Army was changed from the French to the Prussian system, a group of officers who were dissatisfied with this and gathered together in an organization called the Getsuyo-kai (Monday Society) came into conflict with the mainstream of the military, and it came to be expected that the organization would play a role in unifying and uniting officers in thought. After the Getsuyo-kai was forcibly merged with the Kaikosha in 1890, it became the Army's only officially regulated organization.

[Kokatsu Atsushi]

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旧日本陸軍の将校間の親睦(しんぼく)と軍事研究を目的とした団体で1877年（明治10）2月に創立された。とくに、陸軍の兵制がフランス式からプロシア式に変更された際、これを不満として月曜会と称する団体に結集した一群の将校と軍主流との対立が生じたのを契機に、将校の思想的統一、団結を図る役割が期待されることになった。月曜会が1890年に偕行社に強制的に合併されて以来、陸軍唯一の官制組織となった。

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