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The Rikken Teiseitō (立憲帝政党 Constitutional Imperial Rule Party ) was a short-lived conservative political party in the Meiji period Empire of Japan. It was also known as simply the ‘Teiseitō’.The Teiseitō was founded in March 1882 by the editor of the Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun Fukuichi Gen’ichirō and a number of bureaucrats and conservative journalists as a political support group for the conservative Meiji oligarchy.