Japanese general election, 1996

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		During the last government and over the course of the campaign, the traditional opposition party, the JSP, collapsed, several new parties formed, and prominent politicians "crossed the floor." (Reed (1997), "The 1996 Japanese General Election", Electoral Studies 16:1) (3) The CSES items were contained in the post-election wave of a panel study.
		There is one notable difference from the 1992 election: In 1992, an overwhelming majority of elected congressmen were Democrats, while in the 1996 election the Republicans maintained the majority presence in Congress that they had gained in the 1994 midterm elections.
		Although Labor remained the largest party, the incumbent Labor government resigned after the election and was replaced by a mini-coalition of three parties at the center, the Christian People's Party, the Center (Agrarian) party and the Liberals." (Valen (1997), "Norway: The Storting Election of September 15, 1997," Electoral Studies 555-60).
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		During the last government and over the course of the campaign, the traditional opposition party, the JSP, collapsed, several new parties formed, and prominent politicians "crossed the floor." (Reed (1997), "The 1996 Japanese General Election", Electoral Studies 16:1) (3) The CSES items were contained in the post-election wave of a panel study.
		There is one notable difference from the 1992 election: In 1992, an overwhelming majority of elected congressmen were Democrats, while in the 1996 election the Republicans maintained the majority presence in Congress that they had gained in the 1994 midterm elections.
		This election was the first in which the members of the PRI elected their candidate, because President Zedillo refused to continue the practice of choosing his successor.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~dahowell/cm1_cod1.txt

	The Guyana Update -- May 1996 Edition
		President Carter's trip to Guyana in connection with the Center's involvement in the development plan has come in for severe criticism from opposition parties, most of whom saw its involvement as interference in Guyana's internal affairs and an election ploy by Cheddi Jagan administration as it prepares for general elections constitutionally due next year.
		The National Group of Guyana has unanimously decided to nominate Dr Mohamed Shahabuddeen as a candidate for elections for a seat on the International Court of Justice.
		Prime Minister Sam Hinds and Japanese Ambassador to Guyana, Mr Kuniaki Asomura signed the agreement at the office of the Prime Minister.
	www.guyana.org /GuyNews/May96_gu.htm (4885 words)

	Peru
		However, the National Elections Board (JNE) ruled that according to a 1996 law, the referendum could be held only if 48 members of Congress favored it, thereby reversing its earlier decision permitting the signature drive to proceed without congressional approval.
		Those tried by military courts on treason charges generally do not have to wait more than 40 days for their trial; however, since trial procedures in military courts are largely devoid of due process protections, the speed with which trials are concluded offers little benefit to the defendants involved.
		The 1998 municipal elections were held under a new law that mandated that all party candidate lists for congressional and municipal elections include at least 25 percent of each sex.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/1999/398.htm (18276 words)

	JURIST - Paper Chase: Japan high court rules law restricting overseas voting unconstitutional
		The court determined that the legislature was negligent in passing the mesaure and ordered the Japanese government to pay 60,000 yen ($544 US) to the 15 plaintiffs bringing the suit for not being permitted to vote in the October 1996 general election.
		Holly Manges Jones at 7:38 PM ET [JURIST] The Grand Bench (en banc panel) of the Supreme Court of Japan [official website, English version] ruled Wednesday that a clause of the country's Public Offices Election Law restricting the voting rights of Japanese nationals living abroad is unconstitutional.
		Under the ruling, the Japanese legislature is required to revise the law prior the next election.
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /paperchase/2005/09/japan-high-court-rules-law-restricting.php (238 words)

	CNN Programs - Anchors/Reporters - Andrea Koppel
		She reported on numerous events, including the death of China's leader Deng Xiaoping, the 1996 standoff between the United States and China in the Taiwan Strait, the 1994 nuclear crisis on the Korean Peninsula, the first democratic presidential election in Taiwan in 1996 as well as the 1995 U.N. Conference on Women in Beijing.
		In addition, Koppel has interviewed numerous newsmakers, including former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros Gali, Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi and Secretary of State Colin Powell.
		Before moving to Beijing, Koppel served from 1993-1995 as a Tokyo-based CNN correspondent where she reported on the burst of Japan's economic bubble, Japanese politics and culture as well as breaking news events, including the devastating 1995 earthquake in Kobe and the shocking sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway by the Om Shinrikyo cult.
	www.cnn.com /CNN/anchors_reporters/koppel.andrea.html (238 words)

	SURFING THE SENTO
		The success of the conservative party, the Liberal Democratic Party, in the 1996 elections is thought to make any radical restructuring of the telephone industry unlikely.
		This was to be the first general election in which computerized communication could be a factor.
		Japanese party workers were put to work purging their home pages of anything remotely related to the ballot.
	www.law.berkeley.edu /journals/btlj/articles/vol12/Rosen/html/text.html (4666 words)

	Social Democratic Party (Japan) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The party became the largest political party in the general election of 1947, and a government was formed by Katayama Tetsu, forming a coalition with the Democratic Party of Japan, Occupation and another minor party.
		Doi Takako had been leader of SDP since 1996, but she resigned in 2003, feeling that the reason her party lost in the elections was because of her, as chairwoman.
		The Social Democratic Party won only 6 seats in the general elections of November 9, 2003, as compared with 18 seats in the previous elections of 2000.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_(Japan) (1327 words)

	Opposition's Kan hopes grass-roots image will lure voters
		Having changed his political affiliations several times as he helped start new parties -- not uncommon in Japanese politics -- Kan served as health minister in a coalition government in 1996 and uncovered the government's failure to prevent the use of HIV-infected blood products for hemophiliacs.
		TOKYO, Nov 8 (AFP) - Naoto Kan, the leader of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) who is challenging Junichiro Koizumi for the premiership in Sunday's general election, casts himself as a man of the people.
		Kan was first elected to the legislative lower house in 1980 as a candidate from now defunct United Social Democratic Party (USDP), after losing three elections in which he stood as an independent candidate, a member of the dissolved United Social Citizen's Party and a USDP candidate.
	quickstart.clari.net /qs_se/webnews/wed/bt/Qjapan-vote-kan.ROhE_DN8.html (584 words)

	SURFING THE SENTO
		The success of the conservative party, the Liberal Democratic Party, in the 1996 elections is thought to make any radical restructuring of the telephone industry unlikely.
		This was to be the first general election in which computerized communication could be a factor.
		Japanese party workers were put to work purging their home pages of anything remotely related to the ballot.
	www.law.berkeley.edu /journals/btlj/articles/vol12/Rosen/html/text.html (4666 words)

	Introduction to Japan's Political Parties: 1874-1998
		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.
		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.
		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.
	www.kanzaki.com /jinfo/PoliticalParties.html (2929 words)

	asahi.com：POINT OF VIEW / Taro Kono / Japan needs true debate in post-bubble era - ENGLISH
		I was first elected to the Lower House in the general election held Oct. 20, 1996.
		Now the SDP and the Japanese Communist Party don't gain much support from voters.
		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.
	www.asahi.com /english/Herald-asahi/TKY200507280158.html (1133 words)

	ASPAC: Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast
		The DPJ won 52 seats in the general elections of the HR in October 1996.
		The DPJ set up new slogans such as "citizens’ leadership" and "friendship and love" that would appeal to the Japanese voters who were disillusioned with the corruption in the "Iron-Triangle;" the collusion of power among the conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), the bureaucracy, and big business.
		The election placed the DPJ as the third largest party in the lower house after the LDP, with 239 seats, and the NFP, with 142 seats (see Table 1).
	mcel.pacificu.edu /aspac/home/papers/scholars/Itoh/itoh2.php3 (6247 words)

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