Japan Labour-Farmer Party was Kawakami Jōtarō, a lawyer from Kobe. The overwhelming majority of the votes for the party in these elections had come from urban areas (where most of its candidates had been launched). Following the election the three proletarian parties in the assembly (the Japan Labour-Farmer Party, Labour-Farmer Party and the Social Democratic Party) managed to form a joint parliamentary committee, in spite of their political contradictions. The committee did however not last, as the government banned the Labour-Farmer Party. The Japan Labour-Farmer Party wanted the joint committee to protest against the ban, whilst the Social Democratic Party did not want neither to protest against the ban nor retain any contacts with the Labour-Farmer Party after the ban had been issued. Merger into the Japan Masses Party In December 1928, the party merged with the Proletarian Masses Party, the Japan Farmers Party and four regional political parties, forming the Japan Masses Party. However, even after the merger the leadership clique of the Japan Labour-Farmer Party maintained itself as a separate grouping throughout the 1930s. References 1926 establishments in Japan Agrarian socialism Defunct agrarian political parties Defunct political parties in Japan Labour parties Socialist parties in Japan Political parties established in 1926 Political parties disestablished in 1928 Politics of the Empire of Japan