New Fraternity Party
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The New Fraternity Party (新党友愛 Shinto Yuai) was a Japanese political party that existed in early 1998. It was founded by Diet members （almost from Former Democratic Socialist Party） that broke away from the New Frontier Party in January 1998. It was a liberal and democratic Socialist party espousing various left of centre causes.
The name has its origins in the Taisho era democracy and Labour movements, which used the word yuai (fraternity) as a motto. The party also claimed that yuai had a phonetic similarity to the English "you and I", representing their hope of cooperating with ordinary Japanese.
The party was led by Lower House member Nakano Kansei, now a member of the Democratic Party .
In April 1998, the New Fraternity Party merged with the Good Governance Party, the Democratic Party of Japan (1996) and the Democratic Reform Party(民主改革連合, Minshu-Kaikaku-Rengo) to form the Democratic Party .
