Tosa Loyalist Party

The Tosa Loyalist Party (, Tosa Kinnō-tō) is a political organization featured in Ryu Ga Gotoku Ishin!/Like a Dragon: Ishin!. They are based on the real-life organization of the same name.
== Background ==
Tosa Province, ruled by the Yamauchi Clan throughout the Edo period (1600-1868), was one of the places in Japan where the strict class hierarchy system imposed by the country's leaders, the Tokugawa Bakufu, was most rigorously enforced. High-ranking samurai frequently mistreated peasants and lower-ranking samurai for the sake of it and imposed living conditions markedly worse than those of commoners in the rest of the country. As a result, when the American government humiliated and weakened the Tokugawa Shogunate by imposing very unequal trade agreements on them, Tosa became one of the hotbeds of agitation against the Tokugawa and their class system. 
In the wake of the humiliating imposition of those treaties on Japan, opposition groups started springing up, demanding the abolition of the Tokugawa's government and the restitution of power to the country's Emperor, who'd been relegated to a ceremonial role for centuries. These opposition groups dubbed themselves "Loyalist Parties", proclaiming to be loyal to the Emperor as Japan's head of state and religious leader, while refusing to recognize the authority of the Tokugawa government. Together, these parties formed a network of anti-government conspirators referred to as the Ishin Shishi. In Tosa, government minister Yoshida Toyo and his apprentice Takechi Hanpeita established the Tosa Loyalist Party, hoping to use Yoshida's position in the local government to advance their cause and convince the Yamauchi Clan to abolish the class system in order to quell the rising threat of open, violent revolt against them.
== Ryu Ga Gotoku Ishin! ==
== Notable Members ==
* Yoshida Toyo - 1st Leader
* Takechi Hanpeita - 2nd Leader
* Okada Izo - Assassin
* Sakamoto Ryoma - High-Ranking Member (Formerly)
* Shimada Yahei - Member
Category:Organizations
Category:Political Organizations
Category:Tosa Loyalist Party
Category:Ishin Shishi
Category:Ryu ga Gotoku Ishin! Organizations