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	Komeito (Former) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Komeito' (公明党), -- or otherwise known as Clean Government Party or CGP was a former political party in Japan.
		Komeito did quite well, and in 1993, when the LDP was for the first time declared an opposition party, the Komeito became one of the ruling parties, headed by the liberal Japan Renewal Party, but which also included the Japanese Communist Party, Japan New Party, the New Party Sakigake, and the Japan Socialist Party.
		In 1994, however, when the Japan Socialist Party won the elections, of which the LDP was a junior coalition partner of, the Komeito was again thrown into opposition.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clean_Government_Party_(Former) (352 words)

	New Komeito Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The New Komeito (Japanese: 公明党, Kōmeitō) or NKP, sometimes known as "New Clean Government Party", is a political party in Japan formed by Daisaku Ikeda, leader of the Buddhist organisation Soka Gakkai.
		The Party's mission is to pioneer "people-centered politics, a politics based on a humanitarianism that treats human life with the utmost respect and care" (New Komeito, 2002).
		The New Komeito Party had a predecessor with a similar (though more to the left and very radical) ideology, but the current conservative, more moderate, party was formed in 1998, as noted, between a merger of the Clean Government Party and the New Peace Party.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Clean_Government_Party (458 words)

	Japan Omnibus - Politics - Political Parties
		The LDP was born when the Liberal Party merged with the newly-created Japan Democratic Party in 1955 and, under Yoshida Shigeru, became the dominant political force in postwar Japan.
		The newest party on the block, formed at the end of 2002 by five Hoshuto members and nine from Minshuto (Hoshuto was originally formed as a split from Jiyuto in 2000).
		Party leader and Prime Minister Ashida Hitoshi resigned after he was implicated in a bribery scandal which brought down the government.
	www.japan-zone.com /omnibus/political_party.shtml (1045 words)

	International JFL Cafe. Japanese information politics of Japan. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		It was formerly known as the Clean Government Political Assembly and the Clean Government Party (Former).
		It is a moderate communist party of the left-wing.
		It is a moderate social-democratic party of the left-wing.
	internationaleflcafe.com /japanese-information-politics-of-japan.htm (1661 words)

	JapanCorner - The Benihana Guide to Japan
		The party presented a petition to the emperor requesting the implementation of a parliamentary form of government with free elections however it did not come to fruition.
		It is the majority party in the Diet which wins the right to operate the national government and the prime minister is appointed from that party.
		The Shinshinto or New Frontier Party was formed in 1994 by the merging of the Japan Renewal Party, Komeito (Clean Government Party), the Japan New Party, the Democratic Socialist Party and other smaller parties.
	www.japancorner.com /political_parties.asp (421 words)

	Polity IV Country Report 2003: Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		While the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has dominated the political arena in Japan for a better part of the last half of century, nevertheless, citizens have retained their capacity to change their government through democratic mechanisms.
		While opposition parties have actively competed in the electoral arena in the post-WWII era, their ability to seriously challenge the LDP has been, up until recently, very limited.
		While the LDP remains the dominant party in Japan (regaining government control in 1996), institutional reforms and a downturn in the post-war economic miracle have evened out the playing field on which it must compete.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/polity/Jpn1.htm (532 words)

	Japan (06/06)
		However, parliamentary government was not rooted deeply enough to withstand the economic and political pressures of the 1930s, during which military leaders became increasingly influential.
		The six major political parties represented in the National Diet are the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), the New Clean Government Party (Komeito), the Japan Communist Party (JCP), the Socialist Democratic Party (SDP), and the Conservative New Party (CNP).
		The New Conservative Party dissolved in December 2002, and elements of it and defectors from the opposition DPJ formed the Conservative New Party (CNP).
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/index.cfm?docid=4142 (5713 words)

	H-Net Review: Louis D. Hayes on Ending the LDP Hegemony: Party Cooperation in Japan
		One reason why opposition parties have not ousted the LDP is because, with the exception of the Communists, none of them have entered enough candidates in the various contests so that if all had won they would have had a majority in parliament.
		This meant parties had to be careful not to run too many candidates in each district for fear they might dilute the vote to such an extent that they would fail to capture a single seat.
		Such relationships are governed by the ability of the leader to raise money for the benefit of followers who use it in turn to curry favor among the voters.
	www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=102521056272084 (1350 words)

	JPRI Working Paper No. 96
		The Democratic Party wound up with the highest percentage of seats any opposition party has won in the lower house of Parliament since a hodge-podge of post-World War II parties amalgamated into the Liberal Democratic and Socialist Parties in 1955.
		Yet, when the campaign began, Koizumi suddenly declared that he had transformed the LDP into "a party of reform." Now, he claimed, the party supports his advocacy of structural reforms, including privatization of government corporations, deregulation of the economy, and transfer of power from the central to local governments.
		With neither party tackling the major problems of the economy head-on, recovery of economic vitality appeared unlikely for the foreseeable future.
	www.jpri.org /publications/workingpapers/wp96.html (1771 words)

	94045: Japan's Uncertain Political Transition
		In the current coalition, the party's policies are identified as "dovish" or "liberal." In an ongoing political realignment, the Sakigake party may find it difficult to project a credible, distinct identity.
		On December 10, 1994, nine opposition parties and splinters (excluding the Communists) launched a new party, Shinshinto, or the New Frontier Party (NFP) as a conservative alternative to the LDP.
		Of the party's 62 members, 52 voted for Hata against Kaifu in the December 9 balloting, suggesting that Ozawa has some fence-mending to do with Hata and that the unity of the NFP might be open to question.
	www.fas.org /man/crs/94-045.htm (6440 words)

	The Japanese Government
		Actual governance is accomplished through a parliamentary democracy operating under a constitution which took effect on May 3, 1947, a constitution that also includes a Bill of Rights similar to the U.S. Bill of Rights.
		This branch of government consists of several levels of courts, with the Supreme court as the final judicial review/authority of all legislative acts.
		The Shinshinto Party emerged in December 1994 with the merger of the Shinseito (Japan Renewal Party, JRP), the Komeito (Clean Government Party, CGP), the Japan New Party (JNP), the Democratic Socialist Party (DSP), and several minor groups.
	www.koreanhistoryproject.org /Jta/Jp/JpGOV0.htm (534 words)

	Japan - dKosopedia
		Both prefectures and municiplaiites exercise local government functions as directed by the national government in which they are dependent for most of their revenues.
		The LDP currently controls the government in coalition with the New Komeito (or new Clean Government Party), which is affiliated with the Buddhist Soka Gakkai denomination.
		In contrast to the two major political parties in the United States, the LDP is highly factionalized, and much political action depends on the opinions of key faction leaders.
	www.dkosopedia.com /wiki/Japan (1063 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Japan's Political Parties
		One of the oldest political parties in Japan, it was founded in 1922 as an underground group.
		The party, however, was one of the chief beneficiaries of the vote for the upper house in July 1998.
		Like its sister party in the lower house, Heiwa Kaikaku, Komei is relatively centrist and independent continuing to enjoy the support of Soka-Gakkai, whose members number some 15 million, or 7 million households.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/inatl/longterm/japan/japanparties.htm (964 words)

	Japan The Role of Domestic Politics - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, ...
		But the Japan Socialist Party's past ideological positions on foreign policy appeared to be more of a liability than an asset going into the House of Representatives elections in 1990, and the party attempted to modify a number of positions that called for pushing foreign policy to the left.
		Because of the continuous control of the government enjoyed by the LDP since its formation in 1955, the policy-making bodies of the LDP had become the centers of government policy formulation.
		Because the unified will of the majority party almost invariably prevailed in the Diet, some observers believed that the Diet had been reduced to a mere sounding board for government policy pronouncements and a rubber-stamp ratifier of decisions made by the prime minister and his cabinet.
	www.photius.com /countries/japan/government/japan_government_the_role_of_domestic~9159.html (1413 words)

	Wikinfo \| Politics of Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Note: The New Conservative Party (Hoshu Shinto) merged with the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan on November 10, 2003 ("Hoshu Shinto to merge with LDP").
		A coalition of new parties and existing opposition parties formed a governing majority and elected a new prime minister, Morihiro Hosokawa, in August 1993.
		The LDP formed a governing coalition with the Liberal Party in January 1999, and Keizo Obuchi remained prime minister.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Politics_of_Japan (1094 words)

	Japan: Angus Reid Consultants
		Koizumi was able to form a government, as a coalition with the Komeito Clean Government Party and the New Conservatives gave the bloc a majority, with 279 seats.
		LDP coalition partner Komeito Clean Government Party (Kt) secured 11 seats, giving the alliance 139 of the 242 seats in the upper house.
		The opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) won 50 seats, a marked improvement from the 38 garnered in the previous election.
	www.angus-reid.com /tracker/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewItem&itemID=892 (829 words)

	Introduction to Japan's Political Parties: 1874-1998
		In its party convention in January 1986 the SDP abandoned the platform adopted in 1955, which was strongly influenced by Marxism-Leninism.
		The New Frontier Party (Shinshinto) was formed in December 1994 by a merger of the Japan Renewal Party, Komeito (Clean Government Party), Japan New Party, the Democratic Socialist Party, and other parties (excluding the Japanese Communist Party) outside the three-party ruling coalition of the LDP, SDP, and Sakigake.
		Although the party is jointly run by Hatoyama and Kan, Hatoyama is in practice serve as party head and Kan as secretary general, according to party members.
	www.kanzaki.com /jinfo/PoliticalParties.html (2929 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Discovering Japan
		The party itself in not a unified party at all, but a composite of different factions, groups of Diet members who give loyalty first to one prominent leader, second to the LDP.
		During that week, as Ohira fought to regain power and form a government, the Japanese public got a fascinating glimpse of the depth and breadth of political divisions within the LDP and the potential obstructiveness of the system.
		Miki also campaigns on a clean government plank, and has urged reforming the system of election for party president to estinguish the potential for bribery that Tanaka exploited so successfully.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=136816 (1243 words)

	FairVote - Japanese Parliamentary Elections 2005
		An additional 180 seats are elected based on a party list proportional representation system where seats are allocated to parties based roughly on the percentage the party won in the popular vote - but without regard for any distortions that might take place in representation in the district seats.
		Below, we have analyzed the results of the election by calculating how skewed each party’s representation is in the single member seats and the proportionally allocated seats, when compared to their share of the national popular vote.
		Although the Social Democratic Party received only 5% of the popular votes, which is less the than the Japanese Communist Party, they were able to win one single member election, or.3% of the single member elected seats.
	www.fairvote.org /?page=1596 (1171 words)

	Japan - TOWARD A NEW CENTURY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Continual fragmentation of parties and a succession of minority governments led conservative forces to merge the Liberal Party (Jiyuto) with the Japan Democratic Party (Nihon Minshuto), an offshoot of the earlier Democratic Party, to form the Liberal Democratic Party (Jiyu-Minshuto; LDP) in November 1955.
		This party continuously held power from 1955 through 1993, when it was replaced by a new minority government.
		It was followed closely in popularity by the Komeito (Clean Government Party), founded in 1964 as the political arm of the Soka Gakkai (Value Creation Society), a lay organization of the Buddhist sect Nichiren Shoshu.
	countrystudies.us /japan/34.htm (460 words)

	Politics
		Japan is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary government.
		Japan's Government is a parliamentary democracy, with a House of Representatives and a House of Councillors.
		The seven major political parties represented in the National Diet are the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), the New Clean Government Party (Komeito), the Liberal Party (LP), the Japan Communist Party (JCP), the Socialist Democratic Party (SDP), and the New Conservative party (CP).
	www.n2geo.org /countries/politics.php?country_id=114 (800 words)

	New Religious Movements Page: Soka Gakkai
		In 1962, Komekai, or the "Clean Government Association" emerged as a "Gakkai-affiliated" organization and registered with the national government (Shupe 233).
		In 1964, the association became a Komeito, the "Clean Government [Political] Party" (Shupe 234).
		Because of Komeito's affiliation with a Buddhist movement, their platform pronounced the party members to be immune to bribery and corruption, able to resist military entanglements (specifically, US military bases in Japan), and innocent of the danger of communist influence in Japan (Shupe 234).
	religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /nrms/soka.html (2464 words)

	Governing LDP Dominates Japan Politics: Angus Reid Consultants
		The Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) is in second place with 12.8 per cent, followed by the New Komeito Clean Government Party (Kt), the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and the Communist Party of Japan (CPJ).
		The DPJ won 50 seats in the July 2004 election to the House of Councillors, a marked improvement from the 38 garnered in the previous upper house ballot.
		Earlier this month, the three biggest parties in Japan agreed to review the countryâs pension system, and draft an outline of expected reforms before the end of the year.
	www.angus-reid.com /polls/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewItem&itemID=6342 (258 words)

	WowEssays.com - Japense Government
		The remaining cabinet members are the so-called “ministers of the state,” which include the deputy prime minister and heads of various agencies such as the economic planning agency and the science and technology agency.
		The second opposition group on the left is the Japanese communist party, a legal party that has held less than 10 percent of the seats in the diet.
		The third and last opposition party is the Komei, or “clean government party.” Its objective is to purify Japanese politics and improve the quality of life in Japan.
	www.wowessays.com /dbase/ac4/aie155.shtml (573 words)

	Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada
		On February 6, the new Conservative government was sworn in by the Governor General.
		This means that corruption also runs in the veins of these parties and the party system of government.
		Far from Harper's reforms achieving "clean" government, the party system of government and the political institutions will be further mired in crisis.
	www.mlpc.ca /Articles/harperagenda3.html (613 words)

	Asia Times Online - The trusted news source for information on Japan
		The New Komeito Party currently is the enabling coalition partner with the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, who sent troops to Iraq, but speculation abounds that it might be wooed in the future by the increasingly successful opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ).
		For much of the 1980s the party spent its time in the wilderness as one of the ineffectual opposition parties in the face of LDP dominance.
		In fact, despite calls to become less dependent on their coalition partners, the LDP is quite careful these days to tone down its anti-Soka Gakkai rhetoric and has dropped assertions that New Komeito represented a breach in the constitutional separation of state and religion.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Japan/FG30Dh04.html (1674 words)

	July 1998 Upper House Elections in Japan
		The Liberal Democratic Party's defeat was evident as they suffered crushing defeats in three and four-seat districts, partial defeat in two-seat districts and more disappointment in the single-seat districts.
		The Liberal Party, an opposition group of breakaway former Liberal Democrats, with 12 seats in the Upper House, appears to be flirting with the possibility of joining hands with the LDP.
		The choice of the party's elders could be Seiroku Kajiyama, an LDP veteran who has lately been writing lengthy magazine articles critical of Hashimoto's leadership, or Foreign Minister Keizo Obuchi, a bland politician who is next in line for the top job, according to some party watchers.
	www.isop.ucla.edu /eas/web/ldpelect.htm (5706 words)

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