Imperial Rule Assistance Association

Imperial Rule Assistance Association
Abbreviation	YSK
Leader	Funada Naka
Founded	12th October 1940
Headquarters	Tokyo, Empire of Japan
Paramilitary wing	Imperial Rule Assistance Young Men's Corps
Youth wing	Great Japan Youth Party
Ideology	Main: Japanese imperialism Japanese militarism Japanese nationalism Monarchism Pan-Asianism Anti-communism Factions: Managerial State Corporatism Reform Bureaucracy Authoritarian Developmentalism
Political position(s)	Right-wing to far-right
Color(s)	Red and white

The Imperial Rule Assistance Association (Japanese: 大政翼贊會/たいせいよくさんかい, Taisei Yokusankai), is the ruling party of the Empire of Japan. The party was created by former Prime Minister Konoe Fumimaro in order to establish a totalitarian one-party state and promote the goals of the "New Order Movement" (新体制運動/しんたいせいうんどう).

It is split between several factions:

• Home Ministry Clique (内務系, Naimukei): Led by Funada Naka, this group of former Home Ministry bureaucrats is dedicated to law and order and bureaucratic dominance.
• Broad Pond Society (宏池会, Kōchikai): Led by Ikeda Hayato, a clique of technocrats who want to reform Japan from the ground up.
• Union of Imperial Rule Assistance Legislators (翼贊議員同盟, Yokusan Giin Dōmei): Led by Kawashima Shōjirō, these opportunistic legislators want to ensure that the corporatist system, from which they benefit, survives at all costs.