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	Japan Socialist Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Japan Socialist Party was the first political party to form after the end of World War II.
		The Japan Socialist Party, even while in the opposition, remained the largest party until 1955, when the Liberals and Democrats merged and formed the conservative Liberal Democratic Party (Japan).
		In 1986 Takako Doi became the chairwoman of the party, and became speaker of the House of Representatives, ushering in new popularity for the party.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japan_Socialist_Party (625 words)

	History of Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Emphasis was especially placed on Japan's "preeminent interests" in the Korean Peninsula, once famously described as a "dagger pointed at the heart of Japan." It was tensions over Korea and Manchuria, respectively, that led Japan to become involved in the first Sino-Japanese War with China in 1894-1895 and the Russo-Japanese War with Russia in 1904-1905.
		Japan was denied an indemnity, which lead to riots due to the massive amounts of public investiture and fervor in the war.
		Japan went to the peace conference at Versailles in 1919 as one of the great military and industrial powers of the world and received official recognition as one of the "Big Five" of the new international order.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Japan (5277 words)

	Encyclopedia: Democratic Party of Japan
		On September 24, 2003, the party formally merged with the small, centre-right Liberal Party led by Ichiro Ozawaâ”the move was largely considered to be done in preparation for the election on November 9, 2003.
		Yukio Hayoyama (é³©å±±é‚¦å¤« Hatoyama Yukio) (born 2 February 1947) is a politician of the Democratic Party of Japan representing the 18th district of Tokyo in the House of Representatives.
		Seiji Maehara (å‰åŽŸ èª å¸ Maehara Seiji; born 30 April 1962) is a member of the House of Representatives of Japan, and the leader of Democratic Party of Japan, which he was appointed on September 17, 2005 after the crushing defeat of the DPJ in the 11 September 2005 snap election and the...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Democratic-Party-of-Japan (2169 words)

	Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It is not to be confused with the now-defunct Liberal Party (1998), which merged with the main opposition party, the Democratic Party of Japan, in November 2003.
		For the majority of the 1960s, the LDP (and Japan) were led by Eisaku Sato, which began with the hosting of the Olympics in Japan in 1964, and ending in 1972 with Japanese neutrality in the Vietnam War and also with the beginning of the Miracle Economy.
		By 1994, the liberal parties in the ruling coalition failed to form a majority, and the Japan Socialist Party won the election, thus the LDP was returned to the ruling parties, even though it was a junior coalition partner.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Liberal_Democratic_Party_(Japan) (1509 words)

	Democratic Socialist Party (Japan) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Democratic Socialist Party was established in 1960 by a breakaway group (led by Suehiro Nishio) of the Japan Socialist Party.
		In 1996, when the Social Democratic Party (Japan) formed and the Japan Socialist Party dissolved, the New Frontier Party dissolved and merged itself with the Democratic Party of Japan.
		Despite the dissolution of the party back in 1994, its youth organisation (Minsha Youth) has survived until 2003 and was a member of the International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Democratic_Socialist_Party_(Japan) (242 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Japan's Political Parties
		The Socialists took advantage of voter dissatisfaction with the Liberal Democrats in the early 1990s, forming part of the coalition government that took power from the LDP in 1993.
		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.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/inatl/longterm/japan/japanparties.htm (964 words)

	Encyclopedia: Japan Socialist Party
		The Rightist Socialist Party of Japan was a Japanese political party that existed between 1948 and 1955.
		Categories: Political parties in Japan There is still dispute as to whether Japan is a constitutional monarchy or a republic.
		The Leftist Socialist Party of Japan was a Japanese political party that existed between 1948 and 1955.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Japan-Socialist-Party (1465 words)

	Articles - Politics of Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Japan was occupied by the Allies from the end of World War II in 1945 until 1952.
		It is a moderate communist party of the left-wing.
		It is a moderate social-democratic party of the left-wing.
	www.lastring.com /articles/Politics_of_Japan?mySession=69c1161d6ba7cc11034ad38a02c7ad82 (2918 words)

	Japan Socialist Party -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Japan Socialist Party (日本社会党) (in (A native or inhabitant of Japan) Japanese Nihon Shakai-to) was a former Japanese political party with a (A political advocate of socialism) socialist, (Click link for more info and facts about left-wing) left-wing ideology, which functioned between 1945 and 1996.
		The Japan Socialist Party was the first political party to form after the end of (A war between the Allies (Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherl) World War II.
		The Japan Socialist Party, even while in the opposition, remained the largest party until 1955, when the Liberals and Democrats merged and formed the (A person who has conservative ideas or opinions) conservative (Click link for more info and facts about Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)) Liberal Democratic Party (Japan).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/J/Ja/Japan_Socialist_Party.htm (929 words)

	Japan - Democratic Socialist Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Democratic Socialist Party was established in January 1960 when right-wing members of the Japan Socialist Party broke away to form their own group.
		The party's chairman, Tsukamoto Saburo, was forced to resign in 1988 after it was revealed that he received 5,000 shares of stock from Recruit.
		The Democratic Socialist Party won fifteen seats in the July 1993 lower house elections and joined the Hosokawa coalition government.
	countrystudies.us /japan/128.htm (116 words)

	ipedia.com: Social Democratic Party (Japan) Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The SDP was originally known as the Japan Socialist Party, or JSP, in Japanese known as the Nihon Shakai-to and was formed in 1945.
		In 1955, when the two right-wing conservative parties merged into the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), the JSP lost much of its support, and until 1993, was one of the only large opposition parties to the LDP.
		Fukushima Mizuho was elected as the new leader of the party on Novenber 15, 2003.
	www.ipedia.com /social_democratic_party__japan_.html (504 words)

	Japan - Social Democratic Party of Japan
		In the double election of July 1986 for both Diet houses, the party suffered a rout by the LDP under Nakasone: its seats in the lower house fell from 112 to an all-time low of eighty-five and its share of the vote from 19.5 percent to 17.2 percent.
		In the past, the Japan Socialist Party had favored the Kim Il Sung regime in P'yongyang, and in the early 1990s it still refused to recognize the 1965 normalization of relations between Tokyo and Seoul.
		Because of the party's self-definition as a class-based party and its symbiotic relationship with Sohyo, the public-sector union confederation, few efforts were made to attract nonunion constituencies.
	countrystudies.us /japan/125.htm (749 words)

	Japan Today
		Japan’s vulnerability appeared with it, it was the end of Japanese economic miracle.
		It is the main political party in Japan; it has a similar situation with the Institutional Revolutionary Party of Mexico and the Christian Democrat of Italy.
		Used be a popular party with a strong ideology, it is the largest opposition party to L.D.P. J.S.P is supported by the largest labour federation of Japan (Sohyo).
	www.empereur.com /DOC/Japan_Pol_Since1954.html (1243 words)

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		The party platforms were designed to establish a responsible liberalism, to remove sovereignty from the bureaucracy, and thereby to construct a mature civil society in Japan.
		Party officials were also concerned that the United States might have misconstrued the expression to mean that the party was requesting the immediate and complete withdrawal of U.S. forces.
		As a result, the party let itself be swung between the centrifugal forces to move away from the ruling parties and centripetal forces to move closer to the cabinet.
	mcel.pacificu.edu /aspac/papers/scholars/itoh/itoh2/Itoh.DOC (6393 words)

	Social Democratic Party of Japan -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Japan's first socialist parties appeared in the mid-1920s; moderate factions of the country's labour movement combined to form the Social Mass Party (Shakai Taishuto) in 1932.
		The Socialist Party of Japan, formed in 1901, endured varying periods of repression and harassment until 1946, when it won more than 90 seats in the Diet to become Japan's third-strongest party, and a year later its leader, Katayama Tetsu, became...
		In 1980, the Democratic Party was a house that was divided among the Kennedy and Carter camps.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9043359 (934 words)

	FREE In-depth report - Minority Parties - Japan
		In 1990 major opposition parties with representation in the Diet consisted of the Japan Socialist Party, the Komeito, the Japan Communist Party, and the Democratic Socialist Party (Minshato).
		The opposition parties were separated by ideology, with the Japan Communist Party and a significant faction of the Japan Socialist Party espousing Marxist revolution; the others were moderate and pragmatic.
		Moreover, the Japan Socialist Party and the Japan Communist Party played a major role in the 1950s and 1960s in protecting the democratic institutions promoted by the United States occupation.
	www.exploitz.com /Japan-Minority-Parties-cg.php (692 words)

	Introduction to Japan's Political Parties
		The Social Democratic Party (called in English the Japan Socialist Party until February 1991 and then the Social Democratic Party of Japan until January 1996) was originally formed in November 1945 through the merger of various prewar proletarian parties.
		In its party convention in January 1986 the SDP abandoned the platform adopted in 1955, which was strongly influenced by Marxism-Leninism.
		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 (2867 words)

	Democratic Socialist Party (Japan) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Democratic Socialist Party (originally Minshu Shakai-to (民主社会党), later simply Minsha-to(民社党)) was a former (Click link for more info and facts about democratic socialist) democratic socialist party that existed in (A constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building) Japan.
		Democratic Socialist Party was established in 1960 by a breakaway group (led by Suehiro Nishio) of (Click link for more info and facts about Japan Socialist Party) Japan Socialist Party.
		The party advocated construction of a (A government that undertakes responsibility for the welfare of its citizens through programs in public health and public housing and pensions and unemployment compensation etc.) welfare state, opposed to totalitarianism (mainly communism), and strongly supported the Japan-US alliance.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/D/De/Democratic_Socialist_Party_(Japan)1.htm (532 words)

	AM Archive - Japan's opposition unusually quiet
		PETER MARTIN: The aim of the dramas was to hide from Japan's public the surprisingly close links between their party of perpetual governments and party of perpetual opposition.
		So although it seems as if the Socialist Party has hardly ever been in office, the reality is that it's policies have been adopted about one third of the time.
		PETER MARTIN: Yes, there is a new largest opposition party in Japan, the Democratic Party is hard to distinguish from the Liberal Democratic Party from which it came.
	www.abc.net.au /am/stories/s279581.htm (511 words)

	Scottish Socialist Party
		It is already one of the strongest parties of the left in Europe, with six members of the Scottish Parliament, thousands of individual members, and a network of scores of branches stretching from the Northern Isles to the English border.
		The Scottish Socialist Party is commited to abolishing the council tax and replacing it with an income based alternative that takes into account your ability to pay.
		The Scottish Socialist Party is a part of the Scottish Free School Meals Campaign along with CPAG Scotland, One Plus, Poverty Alliance, Scottish Youth Parliament, UNISON, EIS, SSTA, BMA, STUC Women's Committee, Scottish Local Government Forum against Poverty, Members of the Scottish Churches Social Inclusion Network, Dundee Anti-Poverty Forum.
	www.scottishsocialistparty.org (893 words)

	asahi.com：POINT OF VIEW / Taro Kono / Japan needs true debate in post-bubble era - ENGLISH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		During the Cold War era of ideological confrontation with the Japan Socialist Party, which was then the biggest opposition party and now is named the Social Democratic Party, the LDP could cast itself as the principal champion of capitalism, freedom and the security alliance with the United States.
		All the other parties, the LDP and its ruling coalition partner, New Komeito, and Minshuto (Democratic Party of Japan), have platforms that basically support capitalism, freedom and the Japan-U.S. alliance.
		It is vital for the party to realize that unlike the bygone era of rapid economic growth, which didn't need much political leadership, this new age of matured, slow-growth economy demands that politicians switch to a new way of thinking, in which political dynamics lead Japan.
	www.asahi.com /english/Herald-asahi/TKY200507280158.html (1133 words)

	Japan INTEREST GROUPS - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International ...
		Many groups identified so closely with the ruling LDP that it was often difficult to discern the boundaries between the party and the various groups.
		In the case of the Socialist Democratic Party of Japan (until 1991 known as the Japan Socialist Party), the Democratic Socialist Party, the Japan Communist Party (Nihon Kyosanto), and Komeito (Clean Government Party), the links with interest groups were even more intimate.
		Japan's relatively few lawyers divided their allegiance among three professional groups separately affiliated with the LDP, the Japan Socialist Party, and the Japan Communist Party.
	www.photius.com /countries/japan/government/japan_government_interest_groups.html (723 words)

	Japan (from socialism) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The Socialist Party of Japan, formed in 1901, endured varying periods of repression and harassment until 1946, when it won more than 90 seats in the Diet to become Japan's third-strongest party, and a year later its leader, Katayama Tetsu, became prime…
		The Guild Socialist movement developed in England and had its main impact there in the first two decades of the 20th century.
		Located at the western edge of the Pacific Ocean, the Sea of Japan is bounded by Japan and the Russian island of Sakhalin to the east and by Russia and North and South Korea on the Asian mainland to the west.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-219211?tocId=219211 (863 words)

	Graham's Other writings
		The party which has guided Japan to its present position as economic superpower during its 34-year unbroken hold on government suffered a humiliating defeat in Sunday's election for the Upper House of parliament.
		The LDP is on the defensive after a year of damaging scandals which have implicated virtually the entire LDP leadership, while the opposition Japan Socialist Party (JSP), once dismissed as completely ineffective, is surging forward.
		The good news for the LDP is that the huge swing to the opposition, particularly the Japan Socialist Party, is seen by analysts as basically an expression of anti-LDP feeling, rather than a vote of confidence in the opposition's ability to rule the country.
	www.earnshaw.com /other_writings/content.cfm?ID=100 (553 words)

	Social Democratic Party of Japan
		The Social Democratic Party (SDP) is a political party of Japan.
		It was formerly known as the Japan Socialist Party (JSP).
		Doi Takako was a leader of the party from 1986, but she resigned in 2003.
	www.japan-101.com /government/social_democratic_party.htm (110 words)

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