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16-499: The event was first run in 1956, and it was initially titled the Nakayama Grand Prix (中山グランプリ). The following year it was renamed in memory of Yoriyasu Arima (1884–1957), the founder of the race. The distance was originally set at 2,600 metres, and it was shortened to the present length, 2,500 metres, in 1966. The majority of the runners (10 out of 16) in the field are selected by a vote from racing fans, which must be

32-480: A Japan Racing Association horse. If at least one horse in top 10 decided not to participate in the race, the void will be filled with next available horse until 10 available runners are filled. The remainder of 6 (including National Association of Racing (NAR) and foreign-based horses) are determined by the amount of prize money won. Until 1999 the Arima Kinen was open to Japanese trained horses only. However,

48-534: A state socialist command economy . Generally the Shōwa Kenkyūkai was theory-oriented, especially compared with the Kokusaku Kenkyukai. It was underpinned by personal linkage revealed by social network analysis. This disposition resulted in the way their concepts were developed at abstract level, then applied to more concrete topics. This tendency led the group to make the decision to dissolve into

64-511: The Japan Racing Association introduced a new condition in 2000 which allowed for the participation of a foreign trained horse, if it had won that year's Japan Cup (although no such eligible horse has participated in this race). The Arima Kinen was classed as a Domestic Grade I until 2006, and it was then promoted to an International Grade I in 2007. Consequently, it is now possible for more foreign trained horses to compete in

80-523: The Shōwa Kenkyūkai was intentionally very diverse to avoid a systematic bias . It included noted scholars, journalists, bankers, socialists, militarists, businessmen and leaders of youth organizations. Established specifically as an organization of intellectuals, the Shōwa Kenkyukai excluded bureaucrats and politicians from the outset. Many of the members had been regarded Marxists and leftists. By

96-604: The Tokyo Imperial University , and later became a professor there. He read Karl Marx and Max Stirner , and other radical philosophers, and became attracted to the agrarian movement and radical political ideas. Arima founded the Nihon Nomin Kumiai (Japan Farmer's Union) together with Kagawa Toyohiko . He was active in various social programmes, including the establishment and support of night school , women's education , farmer's rights, and

112-590: The Japanese military to ban the "western sport" Arima helped sustain it during the war years, and later helped to revive professional baseball in Japan in the postwar period. In 1940, Arima became head of the Taisei Yokusankai organization, but resigned after five months due to opposition from the militarist faction in the government. In the post-war period, he was active in promoting horse racing and

128-526: The ideas it was developing. In November of that year it established a school, the Shōwajuku (Shōwa Academy), to train successors in its methods. Discussion concerning Japan's future polity after the projected victory in the Second Sino-Japanese War dominated discussions after 1937. The Shōwa Kenkyūkai was a strong proponent of Pan-Asianism , in which it envisioned that Japan would take

144-651: The leading role, and its thesis influenced Konoe in his New Order in East Asia declaration of November 1938 , and formed part of the theoretical basis for the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere . Politically, the Shōwa Kenkyūkai decided that liberal democracy was obsolete, and that the Diet of Japan should be replaced with a corporativist national assembly where membership would be based on occupation, and which would direct

160-480: The original intent of reviewing and assessing issues with the Meiji Constitution and the current political process. Goto was a close friend and political companion of Fumimaro Konoe , who hoped that the study group would generate innovative ideas for political reform, and Gotō called upon Masamichi Rōyama , a political scientist from Tokyo Imperial University to head the association. Membership in

176-486: The race. The maximum number of these was set at four in 2007, and this increased to six for the 2008 running. Speed record: Most wins: Most wins by a jockey : In 2004 vote, Zenno Rob Roy was estimated to have received fewer votes than Cosmo Bulk (Deduced from the official result of Internet vote). However, as Cosmo Bulk was not a Japan Racing Association horse (but belonged to Hokkaido Keiba from NAR ) all votes cast for him were invalid. Vodka

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192-535: The rights of the burakumin , and was chairman of a cultural association aimed at improving education and cultural awareness in rural areas. Arima was elected to the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan in 1924 under the Rikken Seiyūkai party. In 1929, after he succeeded his father to the title of hakushaku ( count ) under the kazoku peerage system, he was nominated to the House of Peers . Arima

208-574: The time the group was dissolved in 1940 it had involved, at its height, some three hundred intellectuals every year in its work. In 1936, it spun off a Shina-mondai Kenkyūkai (China Problems Study Group), and in 1938 it formed a Bunka Kenkyūkai (Cultural Study Group) to deal with the cultural aspects of Japanese-Chinese relations. In July 1938, it also established the Shōwa Dōjinkai (Shōwa Comrades' Association), which brought together middle-level bureaucrats, business leaders, and politicians to spread

224-600: Was a close personal friend of Fumimaro Konoe , and when Konoe became Prime Minister of Japan in 1937, Arima was requested to serve as his Minister of Agriculture . He also participated in Konoe's Showa Studies Society "Brain trust". In 1936, Arima helped organize the Tokyo Senators baseball team, and built a baseball stadium located where the present Korakuen Stadium in Tokyo is now located. Despite pressure from

240-616: Was not allowed to participate in the 2009 race, as she was on a 1-month suspension due to nose bleeding in the Japan Cup . Yoriyasu Arima Yoriyasu Arima ( 有馬 頼寧 , Arima Yoriyasu , 17 December 1884 – 9 January 1957) was a Japanese politician before and during World War II . His wife was the daughter of Prince Takeda Tsunehisa . Arima was born in Tokyo as a son of the former daimyō of Kurume Domain (now part of Fukuoka Prefecture ). He studied agricultural science at

256-548: Was one of the founders of the Nakayama Racecourse . He died in 1957 of acute pneumonia . The Arima Kinen horserace was named in his honor. Showa Studies Society The Shōwa Kenkyūkai ( 昭和研究会 , Shōwa Research Association ) was a political think tank in the pre-war Empire of Japan . The Shōwa Kenkyūkai was established in October 1930 as an informal organization led by Ryūnosuke Gotō , with

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