Reimeikai - Reimeikai

An ideological group promoting democracy in the mid-Taisho period. Sakuzo Yoshino, Tokuzo Fukuda and others planned to form an association to promote democracy in cooperation with Chuokoron and other publications, and founded it on December 23, 1918 (Taisho 7). At the time of its founding, the organization was made up of 23 university professors and intellectuals, including Yoshino, Fukuda, Imai Yoshiyuki, Nitobe Inazo, Hozumi Shigeto, Oba Kageaki, Oyama Ikuo, Takahashi Seiichiro, Gorai Kinzo, Tomonaga Sanjuro, Aso Hisashi, Miyake Setsurei, and Morito Tatsuo, and its main aims were to eradicate Kunimoto's academic erudition and stubborn ideology, and to promote the stability and fulfillment of the people's lives. It had little socialist overtones and was a loosely educational organization, but it held monthly lectures and published a record of these lectures in the "Collection of Dawn Lectures." In particular, it called for the repeal of Article 17 of the Public Order Police Law, which effectively prohibited unions and industrial action by workers and tenant farmers, and for universal suffrage, and it also strongly criticized the military rule of Korea. Although it only lasted for a short time, as it was dissolved in the summer of 1920 (Taisho 9), it served as a catalyst for the formation of many student organizations for social science and ideological research, such as the Shinjinkai and Minjindōmeikai, and played a role as a bridge between the early and later periods of the Taisho Democracy Movement.

[Nomaru Sato]

"History of the Student Social Movement" by Tadao Kikukawa (1931, Chuokoron-Shinsha, revised and expanded, 1947, Kaikou Shoten)

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大正中期の民主主義の啓蒙(けいもう)思想団体。吉野作造(さくぞう)、福田徳三(とくぞう)らが『中央公論』などと連携してデモクラシーを推進する結社を企画し、1918年（大正7）12月23日に発会させた。発会時の会員は吉野、福田、今井嘉幸(よしゆき)、新渡戸稲造(にとべいなぞう)、穂積重遠(ほづみしげとお)、大庭景秋(おおばかげあき)、大山郁夫(いくお)、高橋誠一郎、五来欣造(ごらいきんぞう)、朝永(ともなが)三十郎、麻生久(あそうひさし)、三宅雪嶺(みやけせつれい)、森戸辰男(もりとたつお)ら大学教授や言論人23名で、国本の学理的闡明(せんめい)・頑冥(がんめい)思想の撲滅、国民生活の安固充実の促進を大綱とした。社会主義的色彩は希薄で、緩やかな啓蒙(けいもう)団体であったが、毎月講演会を開き、それらの記録として『黎明講演集』を刊行した。とくに、労働者や小作人の団結や争議行為を事実上禁止した治安警察法第17条の撤廃や普通選挙を主張し、また、武断的な朝鮮統治政策などを強く批判した。20年（大正9）夏に解散したため、存続は短期間であったが、新人会や民人同盟会など多くの社会科学・思想研究の学生組織結成の呼び水となり、大正デモクラシー運動の前期と後期の架橋の役割を果たした。

［佐藤能丸］

『菊川忠雄著『学生社会運動史』（1931・中央公論社／増補改訂・1947・海口書店）』

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