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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: New Komeito Party
		The present New Komeito was formed as a result of a merger between the Komeito (Former) and the New Peace Party on November 7, 1998.
		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.
		However, July 27, 2005, New Komeito's secretary general said that his party would entertain forming a coalition government with the Democratic Party of Japan if, in a snap election, the DPJ took a majority in the House of Representatives.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/New-Komeito-Party (1636 words)

	New Komeito Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The New Clean Government Party (公明党, Kōmeitō) or NKP, often translated as "New Komeito Party", is a political party in Japan endorsed by the Buddhist organisation Soka Gakkai.
		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.
		However, July 27, 2005, New Komeito's secretary general said that his party would entertain forming a coalition government with the Democratic Party of Japan if, in a snap election, the DPJ took a majority in the House of Representatives.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Komeito (441 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.
		Komeito was formed in 1964 as the political wing of Soka Gakkai, an organization affiliated with Nichiren Buddhism.
		Komeito went on to become a mainstay of centrist politics.
	www.japan-zone.com /omnibus/political_party.shtml (818 words)

	Japan - Komeito (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Following the July 1993 House of Representatives election, the Komeito (the euphemistic English translation of the Japanese name is Clean Government Party) held fifty-one seats in the House of Representatives and joined the Hosokawa coalition.
		The Komeito was an offshoot of the Soka Gakkai, which had been founded in 1930 as an independent lay organization of the Nichiren Shoshu sect of Buddhism, whose numbers were estimated at 750,000 in 1958 and more than 35 million in the late 1980s.
		Ties between the Komeito and the Soka Gakkai were formally dissolved in 1970, and the image of an "open party" was promoted.
	countrystudies.us /japan/126.htm (226 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).
		Rebuffing the suggestion of a DPJ-New Komeito coalition and stressing the DPJ's gradual and staggered "hop, skip, jump" electoral strategy for power, Okada was somewhat irked by the sudden barrage of questions about New Komeito and that the DPJ might need its help.
		Komeito was originally formed as a political shield to protect Soka Gakkai interests as they came under serious discrimination in Imperial Japan.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Japan/FG30Dh04.html (1674 words)

	FT.com / World - Komeito leader opposed to Japan tax cuts
		The leader of the Komeito, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s coalition partner, on Wednesday said he was opposed to tax cuts for big business in remarks that underline lingering differences between Japan’s two governing parties.
		In remarks that reflect Komeito’s image as a party with a strong social conscience, he also said big business should be encouraged to stop hiring part-time workers and to take on full-time employees.
		Komeito was willing to clear up any grey areas in interpreting the constitution, written in 1946, “but not if that is a strategy designed to chip away” at the ban on collective self defence, he said.
	www.ft.com /cms/s/3340215a-7492-11db-bc76-0000779e2340.html (652 words)

	NEW KOMEITO / About Us / Message
		New Komeito is calling for a national initiative to deal with the issue, seeking to implement government programs and legislature that would aid both citizens and companies to strike a healthier balance between work and family, so that married couples can raise families without either partner having to sacrifice their jobs to do so.
		New Komeito is determined to reverse this trend, in part by strengthening cooperation and coordination among families, schools and communities.
		New Komeito will make its presence and views felt all the more vigorously within the coalition, and, as we have in the past, to lead the effort to overcome the myriad challenges that lie before Japan.
	www.komei.or.jp /en/about/message.html (1351 words)

	Koizumi's pension reform dilemma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Coalition partner New Komeito's organizational strength was a key factor behind the success of Koizumi's Liberal Democratic Party in the Nov. 9 Lower House election, while the business sector has always had deep pockets for campaign contributions.
		Several points of the New Komeito policy manifesto, such as keeping pension premiums under 20 percent of annual income and maintaining pension payments to between 50 percent and about 55 percent of net annual income for the average worker, mirror the ministry's proposals.
		New Komeito will fight to gain approval of the welfare ministry plan since any watering down would be seen by voters as a betrayal of its policy manifesto.
	www.globalaging.org /pension/world/koizumi.htm (552 words)

	TheStreet.com: Jobs First, Then Pork for Japan
		But as a condition for doing this, the Komeito is trying to extract a commitment to delay lower house elections.
		Komeito leaders know their supporters are having trouble stomaching an LDP alliance, so they want to put as much time as possible between an election and sealing a deal with the prime minister.
		If Obuchi caves to Komeito wishes, he won't call a snap poll until the end of the year at the earliest.
	www.thestreet.com /pf/comment/screen/755623.html (822 words)

	Komeito (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The present New Clean Government Party was formed as a result of amerger between Komei and the New Peace Party on November 7, 1998.
		The New Komeito is widely understood to be the political arm of Soka Gakkai to achieve the aim of makingSoka Buddhism the state religion of Japan and, ultimately, the world.
		DaisakuIkeda, head of Soka Gakkai, is considered the de facto head of New Komeito.
	www.therfcc.org /komeito-345899.html (253 words)

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		But assuming that New Komeito remains in alliance with the LDP, a DPJ government would have difficulty in implementing policy, as it only has 84 seats in the 242-seat upper house, compared with a combined 138 seats for the LDP-New Komeito coalition.
		Its presence in the coalition has also been a key factor in the LDP's ability to win by-elections--New Komeito supporters vote for the LDP in seats where their party is not standing--and in maintaining a majority in the upper house, where the LDP has only 114 seats.
		If New Komeito decides to switch its support to the opposition--the party's secretary-general, Tetsuzo Fuyushiba, hinted as much in the run-up to the upper-house vote--Mr Koizumi's chances of political survival would be slim.
	www.viewswire.com /index.asp?layout=display_article&doc_id=1829315368 (1250 words)

	New Clean Government Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In 1964, it had a name change, to the Komeito Party, and it became pretty popular, until the 1990s, when the political scandals that plagued the ruling parties also plagued the Komeito Party.
		In 1998, the Komeito Party merged with the New Peace Party, and the two parties formed the New Komeito Party, or Clean Government Party.
		In the 2003 and 2004 Dietary elections, the New Komeito Party did well, and is the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)'s junior coalition partner.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/new_clean_government_party (472 words)

	Soka Gakkai. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In 1993–94, Komeito was part of the multiparty government led by Morihiro Hosokawa.
		Komeito was dissolved in 1994 as part of a realignment among Japanese opposition parties, but the parties that arose from it reunited in 1998 to form New Komeito.
		In 1999, New Komeito became a junior partner in the Liberal Democratic–led government.
	www.bartleby.com /65/so/SokaGakk.html (396 words)

	Japan Policy & Politics: FOCUS: New Komeito making pro-Koizumi stance clear (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The New Komeito is the successor of the Komeito, which was inaugurated in 1964 as the middle-of-the-road political arm of the neo-Buddhist organization Soka Gakkai, which now has 8.12 million household members across the country.
		The New Komeito was also a partner, along with the New Conservative Party, in the next government of Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori that was inaugurated in April 2000.
		The New Komeito was not involved, however, in a dispute late last year between Koizumi and the ''forces of resistance'' within the LDP over whether government-backed corporations should be reformed.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0XPQ/is_2002_March_4/ai_84260586 (748 words)

	AllRefer.com - Japan - Komeito \| Japanese Information Resource
		Following the July 1993 House of Representatives election, the Komeito (the euphemistic English translation of the Japanese name is Clean Government Party) held fifty-one seats in the House of Representatives and joined the Hosokawa coalition.
		The Komeito was an offshoot of the Soka Gakkai, which had been founded in 1930 as an independent lay organization of the Nichiren Shoshu sect of Buddhism, whose numbers were estimated at 750,000 in 1958 and more than 35 million in the late 1980s.
		Ties between the Komeito and the Soka Gakkai were formally dissolved in 1970, and the image of an "open party" was promoted.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/japan/japan242.html (349 words)

	Re: Soka Gakkai Endorses New Komeito Party in Upcoming House of (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The official establishment of Komeito took place on November 17, 1964, with Takeshi Tsuji, current vice president of the Soka Gakkai, appointed vice-chairman of the party, and Hiroshi Hojo, current president of the Soka Gakkai, appointed chief secretary.
		As the second largest political party in the Tokyo metropolitan area, the Komeito was in a position to influence such things as the financial budget of the metropolitan police department.
		The Komeito succeeded in reducing to eight the number of Soka Gakkai members who were indicted by the public prosecutor.
	www.talkaboutreligion.com /group/alt.religion.buddhism.nichiren/messages/262747.html (2167 words)

	FairVote - In the News
		All over the country, New Komeito called for LDP candidates running in single-seat constituencies to ask voters to cast ballots for New Komeito candidates in proportional representation races, in return for New Komeito's backing of LDP candidates in single-seat electoral district races.
		In the general election, New Komeito adopted the strategy of securing support from the LDP in the proportional representation races in exchange for votes of Soka Gakkai members--totaling 20,000 to 30,000 per single-seat electoral district--for single-seat LDP candidates.
		New Komeito, for its part, is poised to further strengthen the LDP-New Komeito cooperation in the House of Councillors election next summer by obtaining more support from voters leaning toward the LDP.
	www.fairvote.org /per/?page=39&articlemode=showspecific&showarticle=420 (1002 words)

	Japan Times: Obuchi asks New Komeito to join the ruling coalition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Kanzaki told Obuchi his party will offer a formal response to the proposal after its annual convention July 24; he also emphasized that it will not be bound by earlier policy agreements made by the LDP and its junior partner.
		New Komeito plans to set the party's basic policy and gain approval for a tieup from its rank-and-file members at the upcoming convention.
		A bill to enable the cuts was submitted to the Diet in accordance with an earlier agreement between the LDP and the Liberal Party, but New Komeito vehemently opposes the idea.
	www.japantimes.com /cgi-bin/makeprfy.pl5?nn19990707a1.htm (529 words)

	New Komeito Party Summary
		The Komeito's success at the polls was due in large measure to the effective local organizational strength of Soka Gakkai.
		The Komeito came under criticism for the energetic proselytizing of Soka Gakkai, efforts that bordered on pressure and intimidation.
		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.
	www.bookrags.com /New_Komeito_Party (641 words)

	Former Soka Gakkai Leader Claims She Was Raped by Daisaku Ikeda
		The Soka Gakkai's political arm, the New Komeito, is the second-largest opposition party in the Diet (parliament) and is notably influential in the upper house.
		But though the coalition has a majority in the lower house of the Diet, it is nine seats shy in the upper house, making it difficult to pass controversial legislation.
		The last time the Komeito tasted power -- during a brief (non-LDP) coalition government headed by Morihiro Hosokawa in 1993 -- it was quick to block efforts to enforce the separation of church and state, as required by the constitution.
	www.freedomofmind.com /resourcecenter/groups/s/soka/price.htm (856 words)

	Komeito torn between LDP, Soka Gakkai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		When New Komeito backed the Liberal Democratic Party's decision to send the Self-Defense Forces to Iraq earlier this year, members of Soka Gakkai, Japan's largest lay Buddhist organization whose political arm is New Komeito, launched rare opposition to the party's decision.
		Without the help of New Komeito, as many as 25 percent of the 177 LDP candidates who won single-seat constituencies in the 2000 general election might have been defeated, according to Ikuo Kabashima, a University of Tokyo professor and expert on political issues.
		New Komeito also opposes revising the Fundamental Law of Education, in the way promoted by the LDP, which wants to foster patriotism and religious sentiment under the government's initiatives, which would appear to be a wartime throwback.
	www.rickross.com /reference/gakkai/gakkai20.html (1174 words)

	Japan Religious News: New Komeito-Soka Gakkai briefing held (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		July 7, 2000: New Komeito officials met with Soka Gakkai representatives at the party's annex in Shinjuku, Tokyo, to brief the lay Buddhist group of the party's recent decision to participate in the coalition government.
		Soka Gakkai is New Komeito's principal electoral supporter, and the two organizations meet periodically to discuss views on political developments and policy agendas.
		In their Friday discussion, the seventh held this year, New Komeito secretary general Tetsuzo Fuyushiba thanked Soka Gakkai members around the nation for their election support and pledged that his party would seek passage of a new anti-corruption law by as early as this year.
	www.vikingphoenix.com /public/JapanIncorporated/religion/sgi2000-1.htm (179 words)

	Corporate Note: Koizumi’s Mandate: the Future of Japanese Politics and Economic Reform - Corporate & Policy Programs
		The LDP would not have won without the support of the Komeito, which now has substantial political clout even though it represents only about 10 percent of the Japanese electorate.
		The Komeito is likely to find a way to distance itself somewhat from the LDP so that it can leverage its casting vote position.
		The Komeito's supporting religious organization, Soka Gakkai, is far more middle class in its composition today than it was in the 1950s.
	www.japansociety.org /corporate/event_corp_note.cfm?id_note=44332441 (1232 words)

	BBC News \| ASIA-PACIFIC \| Risky alliance for Japan's ruling party
		The Soka Gakkei sect to which Mrs Komori belongs sponsors the Komeito party, which campaigns on a programme of social welfare, and originally built its power base among the sick and underprivileged.
		The Komeito has traditionally been an opposition voice, but now it is asking its supporters to throw their weight behind the government.
		The Komeito says its structure is independent of the Soka Gakkai although it shares the same goals of social welfare and pacifism.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/797754.stm (694 words)

	TIME Asia Print Page: Japan's Holy Wildcard -- December 1, 2003 / Vol. 162 No. 21
		Little known outside Japan, the New Komeito is an offshoot of the country's largest lay Buddhist organization, Soka Gakkai.
		In the elections, the New Komeito was the only party other than the DPJ to pick up more seats, increasing its bloc from 31 to 34.
		The New Komeito, for its part, is in a position to speak loudly—and it will certainly be heard.
	www.time.com /time/asia/magazine/printout/0,13675,501031201-549066,00.html (661 words)

	The Japan Times Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Junya Yano, a former Komeito secretary general and chairman, said the party became "disappointed" with the Socialists' demand that the security pact be annulled and the SDF be disbanded.
		Shimada said New Komeito's support of such amendments and the current SDF deployment in Iraq are not consistent with the views of Soka Gakkai members.
		The LDP must depend heavily on New Komeito because it doesn't have a majority in the Diet and because a growing number of its members are unable to win elections in single-seat constituencies without the assistance of New Komeito and Soka Gakkai, he said.
	www.japantimes.com /cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20041118f2.htm (1015 words)

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