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{{Short description|Fascist Filipino political party during the nation's Japanese occupation}}{{Use Philippine English|date=April 2023}}{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2023}}

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Benigno Aquino, Sr. (1942–1943)}}{{nowrap>Camilo Osías (1943–1945)}}|president = Pio Duran (politician)>Pio Duran|spokesperson = Filipino nationalismNational conservatismFascismPeter de Mendelssohn, Japan's Political Welfare, Taylor & Francis US, 2010, p. 121Felixberto G. Bustos, And Now Comes Roxas: The Story of the First President of the Republic of the Philippines and the Occupation, C. Z. Bustos, 1945, p. 187Augusto V. de Viana, Kulaboretor!: The Issue of Political Collaboration During World War II, University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2003, p. 46Japanophilia{{Citation >title=KALIBAPI last=Guillermo edition=Third year=2012 |page=223}}|headquarters = Manila, Second Philippine Republic|international = |website = |country = the Philippines|chairperson = |founder = Philippine Executive CommissionFar-rightSven Matthiessen, Japanese Pan-Asianism and the Philippines from the Late Nineteenth Century to the End of World War II: Going to the Philippines Is Like Coming Home?, p. 134100px)|flag = Flag of Kalibapi.svg}}The Kapisanan sa Paglilingkod sa Bagong Pilipinas (Association for Service to the New Philippines),{{Citation |last=Jose |title=KALIBAPI |year=2001}}{{Citation |last=Pomeroy |title=The Philippines |year=1992 |page=113}} or KALIBAPI, was a fascist Filipino political party that served as the sole party of state during the Japanese occupation. It was intended to be a Filipino version of Japan's governing Imperial Rule Assistance Association.Setsuho Ikehata, Lydia N. Yu-Jose, Philippines-Japan Relations, Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2003, p. 196

History

Formed by the Philippine Executive Commission (Komisyong Tagapagpaganap ng Pilipinas) under the leadership of Jorge Vargas, the party was created by Proclamation No. 109 of the PEC, a piece of legislation passed on December 8, 1942, banning all existing political parties and creating the new governing alliance.Alphonso J. Aluit, By Sword and Fire: The Destruction of Manila in World War II, February 3-March 3, 1945, Bookmark Inc., 1994 The Japanese had already dissolved all political parties on the islands, even including the pro-Japanese Ganap Party, and established KALIBAPI as a mass movement designed to support the occupation whilst taking advantage of Filipino nationalism in the region.{{Citation |last=Pomeroy |title=The Philippines |year=1992 |pages=113–114}} Inaugurated on December 30, 1942, the death anniversary of Filipino writer and national hero José Rizal, "to emphasize the patriotic basis of the organization",NEWS, Romero, José V., January 26, 2017, Grandad Aquino's KALIBAPI,weblink The Manila Times, Manila, October 13, 2017, It was inaugurated on December 30, 1942, the death anniversary of Philippine national hero José Rizal, to emphasize the patriotic basis of the organization., the party was headed by its Director-General Benigno S. Aquino with Pio Duran as Secretary-General and effective second in command and Ganap leader Benigno Ramos as a member of the executive committee.{{Citation |last=Pomeroy |title=The Philippines |year=1992 |pages=117–118}} The three toured the Philippines, setting up local party organisations and promoting the "new order in East Asia" at mass meetings.{{Citation |last=Pomeroy |title=The Philippines |year=1992 |page=118}}For the Japanese, KALIBAPI served as a labour recruitment service in its initial stages before taking on an expanded role in mid 1943. It was left to KALIBAPI to write the new constitution and establish the new National Assembly, resulting in Aquino's appointment as Speaker (as his replacement as Director-General by Camilo Osías). All 54 members of the Assembly were KALIBAPI members, although 33 of them had held elected office before the invasion as well.{{Citation |last=Pomeroy |title=The Philippines |year=1992 |page=119}} KALIBAPI soon claimed a membership that ran into the hundreds of thousands.David Bernstein, The Philippine Story, READ BOOKS, 2007, p. 163 The islands were declared officially independent as the Second Philippine Republic on October 14, 1943, under the Presidency of José P. Laurel and his KALIBAPI government.Ralph Bernard Smith, Chad J. Mitcham, Changing Visions of East Asia, 1943-93: Transformations and Continuities, Taylor & Francis, 2007, p. 22 This had been accomplished through the Preparatory Committee for Philippine Independence, which KALIBAPI had established in mid-1943 under Japanese direction.Milton Walter Meyer, Asia: A Concise History, Rowman & Littlefield, 1997, p. 305Taking a highly nationalistic standpoint, KALIBAPI was active in initiatives to promote the Tagalog language as a central feature of Filipino identity. To this end a pared-down, 1000 word version of the language was promoted to be learned rapidly by those not yet versed in the language.Robert B. Kaplan, Richard B. Baldauf, Language and Language-in-Education Planning in the Pacific Basin, Springer, 2003, p. 72 The general nationalism of Laurel's government strained relations with Japan, particularly as Laurel had refused to declare war on the United States and United Kingdom. As such, the Japanese instructed Ramos to form a new group, Makapili, in November 1944 to give more tangible military support to the Japanese.Ray C. Hunt, Bernard Norling, Behind Japanese Lines: An American Guerrilla in the Philippines, University Press of Kentucky, 2000, p. 142KALIBAPI disappeared after the Japanese surrender with some of its leaders arrested for collaboration and treason. No former KALIBAPI candidates ran for office in the 1946 general election, and some of those not arrested went into hiding in Philippines, exile in Japan, or were executed by vengeful Filipinos or the communist-aligned Hukbalahap members.

Sources

• {{Citation |first=Ricardo T. |last=Jose |title=The Association for Service to the New Philippines (KALIBAPI) during the Japanese Occupation: Attempting to Transplant a Japanese Wartime Concept to the Philippines |journal=The Journal of Sophia Asian Studies |number=19 |year=2001 |pages=149–185 |url=http://repository.cc.sophia.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/123456789/5217/1/200000079942_000121000_149.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141020023247weblink |archive-date=October 20, 2014 }}
• {{Citation |first=William J. |last=Pomeroy |title=The Philippines: Colonialism, Collaboration, and Resistance |publisher=International Publishers Co. |year=1992 |pages=113–119}}

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