Editing Taisei Yokusankai (section)

{{Evil Organization
|Box title    = Evil Organization
|Image        = Flag of Taisei Yokusankai.png
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|fullname = Taisei Yokusankai 
|alias = Imperial Rule Assistance Association
|origin = Empire of Japan 
|foundation = October 12, 1940
|dissolution = June 13, 1945
|headquarters = Marunouchi, Chiyoda Ward,
Tokyo, Empire of Japan
|commanders = [[Fumimaro Konoe]] (1940–1941)<br>[[Hideki Tojo]] (1941–1944)<br>[[Kuniaki Koiso]] (1944–1945)<br>[[Kantarō Suzuki]] (1945)
|agents = 
|skills = 
|goals = Turn Japan into a one-party state (successful)<br>Enforce the rule of [[Emperor Hirohito]] (successful until 1945)<br>Expand the Empire of Japan (failed)
|crimes = [[War crimes]]<br>[[Crimes against humanity]]<br>Crimes against peace<br>Mass [[murder]]<br>[[Genocide]]<br>[[Torture]]<br>[[Propaganda]]<br>[[Ethnic cleansing]]
|type of villains =War criminals
|type of villain=War criminals}}{{Quote|The Taisei Yokusankai movement has already turned on the switch for rebuilding a new Japan and completing a new Great East Asian order which, writ large, is the construction of a new world order. The Taisei Yokusankai is, broadly speaking, the New Order movement which will, in a word, place One Hundred Million into one body under this new organisation that will conduct all of our energies and abilities for the sake of the nation.|Excerpt from the November 6, 1940, issue of ''Shashin Shūhō''.}}
The '''Taisei Yokusankai''' (also known as the '''Imperial Rule Assistance Association''') was [[Imperial Japan]]'s para-[[fascist]] organization created by Prime Minister [[Fumimaro Konoe]] on October 12<sup>th</sup>, 1940 to promote the goals of his Shintaisei. ("New Order") movement. The party was created from a merging of all of Japan's other political parties at the time such as the Rikken Seiyukai, Rikken Minseito, Kokumin Domei, Shakai Taishuto.

Konoe originally conceived the party as a reformist party to overcome the differences of the many different parties in Japan during the war, but it evolved into a "statist" ruling political party which aimed at removing the sectionalism in the politics and economics in the Empire of Japan to create a totalitarian single-party state, in order to maximize efficiency of Japan’s total war effort in China. When the organization was launched officially, Konoe was hailed as a "political savior" of a nation in chaos; however, internal divisions soon appeared. The party nationalized Japan and helped prepare the country for total war against China.