Shuyodan - Shuyodan

Japanese: 修養団 - しゅうようだん

It was an educational organization founded in 1906 by Hasunuma Monzo (1882-1980), a student at Tokyo Normal School. It praised the Emperor System, social cooperation, and thrift, and its slogan was "Sweat, discipline, love for one another." After World War I, it joined with the local youth movement through camping seminars and other events, and expanded its influence. It gained the patronage and support of financial figures such as Shibusawa Eiichi, the Youth Association movement's Tazawa Yoshiho, and the legal authority Hiranuma Kiichiro, and in the Showa period it became an external organization of both the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ministry of Education. It also established branches in public and private factories and mines, and devoted itself to educational work that advocated labor-management cooperation and to the total national spirit mobilization movement. By the time of Japan's defeat in the war, it was said to have 1,700 branches and 6.2 million members.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1906年，東京師範学校学生の蓮沼門三(1882‐1980)によって創設された教化団体。天皇制の賛美と社会協調，勤倹努力を説き，〈流汗鍛錬，同胞相愛〉がスローガンであった。第1次大戦後，キャンプ講習会などにより地域青年運動と結合，勢力を伸ばした。渋沢栄一などの財界名士や青年団運動の田沢義鋪，司法界の大立者平沼騏一郎などの庇護と支持を得，昭和期に入ってからは内務･文部両省の外郭団体となった。さらに官業･民間の工場･鉱山に支部を設け，労資協調を説く教化事業や国民精神総動員運動に力を注ぎ，敗戦時には1700支部，620万の団員を擁したといわれる。

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