Kodaha

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The Koda Ha (Imperial Benevolent Rule or Action Group) was an interwar Japanese faction, led by Colonel (later General) Sadao Araki with Jinsaburo Mazaki, Heisuke Yanagawa and Hideyoshi Obata. (Some sources use Kodoha, the later name of the Imperial Way Faction, already for the Kodaha. The transition is around 1934. The term Kodo apparently dates from 1932, as a coinage of Sadao Araki.)

The Kodaha represented the radical and ultranationalist elements growing within the army, where the rival Toseiha attempted to represent the more conservative moderates. It was influenced by Kita Ikki and Nakano Seigo amongst other political thinkers, in the 1920s and 1930s.

Both groups originated in a split of the Double Leaf Society, an older military grouping, formed by traditionalist samurai officers departing and a new radical breed taking their place in the Japanese military, bringing fanatical beliefs of ultranationalism and the need for a purge of the Choshu elements of the Army. Both factions combined ideas from right-wing, fascist and right socialist local political thought, as political movements to gain power by democratic elections, or if necessary by force.

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