Talk:1932 Japanese general election

The name of the 'Rōnō Taishūtō' should be the 'Zenkoku Rōnō Taishūtō'
So Essentially:

- The party led by Aso Hisashi is named in Romaji the Rōnō Taishūtō, with its (clunky if I might say) English translation (this translation was taken from the Japanese Wikipedia) being the National Labour-Farmer Masses Party.

- In the 1930 election, however, the same name - Rōnō Taishūtō - was used for the party named Labour-Farmer Masses Party (ie. without the word National).

- The Japan Masses Party, which also participated in the 1930 General Election, is named Taishuto ; whilst the National Masses Party, which was founded shortly after election, is named Zenkoku Taishūtō in its Romaji translation.

Essentially my point is that the name used for the party led by Aso Hisashi is wrong, as the sentence used for this party on the Japanese Wikipedia page for the 1932 General Election is 全国労農大衆党, which, when put into a Romaji translator, gives Zenkoku Rōnō Taishū Tō. Whilst I am no linguist myself, from the names above I presumed the following:

-Rono means Labour-Farmer (although Rōdō Nōmin Tō means Labour-Farmer Party so I'm a bit confused about this one)

-Taishuto means Masses and

-Zenkoku means National.

With all of this said, I think the correct name should be Zenkoku Rōnō Taishūtō, since the literal translation would be the National Labour-Farmer Masses Party, which makes sense as the Rōnō Taishūtō (ie. the Labour-Farmer Masses Party) was merged into the National Conference for a United Proletarian Party in June 1930 to form the Zenkoku Taishūtō (ie. the National Masses Party), which was then subsequently merged with the New Labour-Farmer Party to form the Zenkoku Rōnō Taishūtō (ie. the National Labour-Farmer Masses Party).

I'm sorry in advance if this is all written in an extremely confusing way but I wanted to post this before making any change as I'm not a Japanese speaker and I might have made a mistake, so any help would be greatly appreciated. Regards Vladimir Budinski (talk) 14:04, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

different colours
I wonder why there are different colours in the diagram and in the table for the election results. In the diagram the Rikken Seiyukei party is depicted in dark red, in the table in olive green. I think the same colours should be used in both. This is not only the case in this article but in others regarding Japanese elections as well. Maxl (talk) 13:16, 16 February 2024 (UTC)