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	ipedia.com: Politics of Japan Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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").
		It is a moderate communist party of the left-wing.
		It is a moderate social-democratic party of the left-wing.
	www.ipedia.com /politics_of_japan.html (1637 words)

	Democratic Party of Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) was formed on April 27, 1998.
		On September 24, 2003, the party formally merged with the small, center-right Liberal Party led by Ichiro Ozawa—the move was largely considered to be done in preparation for the election on November 9, 2003.
		Democratic Socialist Party: members of the former Democratic Socialist Party which merged with the DPJ early on.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Democratic_Party_of_Japan (1021 words)

	Mori Likely to Become Next Japanese PM (washingtonpost.com)
		Mori, 62, a party loyalist and lieutenant to Obuchi, is expected to be chosen by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party Wednesday morning, and elected by the two houses of the Japanese Diet Wednesday afternoon.
		The Liberal Democrats' nominee is assured election when the Diet meets Wednesday afternoon because the party has a majority of votes in the key lower House of Representatives and — with its coalition members — controls the less-powerful upper House of Councillors.
		Japan's constitution permits a prime minister to be replaced "in the absence" of a premier.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/pmextra/apr00/04/A9228-2000Apr4.html (687 words)

	Japan Human Rights Practices, 1995 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Government, formed in June 1994, is a three-party coalition consisting of the Liberal Democratic Party, the Japan Socialist Party, and the New Party Sakigake.
		A parliamentary democracy, Japan is governed by the political party or parties able to form a majority in the lower house of its bicameral Diet.
		Japan has no national law protecting the rights of the disabled, including access and employment, but some prefectures and cities have enacted their own legislation addressing the issue.
	www.usemb.se /human/human95/japan.htm (4877 words)

	Political party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Also one party dominant systems existed Mexico with the Institutional Revolutionary Party until the 1990's and in the United States with the Democratic Party from the 1800s until the 1970s.
		The emblem of Socialist Parties is often a rose held in a fist.
		To the liberal whacko "reviewer" trying to smear Coulter as an anti-Semite because this said "reviewer" decided to substitute "Jew" for "liberal" in some of her quotes: you are missing the whole point buddy.
	www.freeglossary.com /Political_party (1157 words)

	RICE: It's More Than Just a Food \| National Clearinghouse of U.S.-Japan Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Japan is no longer a country where 90% of the population is engaged in rice cultivation.
		In Japan, rice is a controlled commodity, with the government regulating the amount of land used for cultivation and overseeing the distribution, usually through designated stores.
		Currently, Japan is experiencing gai-atsu (foreign pressure) to lift the ban on the importation of rice, especially at the Uruguay Round of multilateral negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
	www.indiana.edu /~japan/digest6.html (1891 words)

	Asia Times Online - The trusted news source for information on Japan
		Japan is in effect a one-party state, given that the LDP has been in power continuously - except for a brief period from August 1993 to June 1994 - since its inception in 1955.
		There is nothing in Japan's constitution stating that a prime minister can only serve for two or three years, but the LDP's own charter has traditionally limited the party president (who automatically becomes prime minister, owing to the LDP's majority in the Diet, or parliament) to two terms of two years each.
		Because the LDP is a party of entrenched and vested interests, and because economic reforms involve breaking up those vested interests, the party unsurprisingly has blocked the economic reforms that are said to be necessary for Japan to restore the economy to long-term growth.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Japan/FD27Dh03.html (3131 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.
		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)

	Japan - THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY
		The party's fortunes have risen and ebbed: a low point was reached in the July 23, 1989, election to the upper house, when it became, for the first time, a minority party, and again in the July 18, 1993, lower house election, when it lost its simple majority in that body.
		The Japan Democratic Party, which had been established only a year before, in November 1954, was itself a coalition of different groups in which farmers were prominent.
		The choice was formally that of a party convention composed of Diet members and local LDP figures, but in most cases, they merely approved the joint decision of the most powerful party leaders.
	countrystudies.us /japan/122.htm (2190 words)

	CNN - Japan governing party, opposition reach compromise on coalition - January 13, 1999
		TOKYO(CNN) -- Japan is on track to a new coalition government Wednesday as the ruling party and a major opposition group overcame the final hurdle in protracted negotiations.
		The Liberal Party is pushing for a reinterpretation of Japan's pacifist Constitution to allow greater freedom for the military overseas, but the LDP is opposed that.
		The ruling party fears the Liberal Party's proposals would go against Japan's Constitution, which prohibits the country from participating in missions that use force as a means to settle international disputes.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/asiapcf/9901/13/japan.politics.02/index.html (588 words)

	Liberal Democratic Party of Japan
		A meeting between the executive members of the Democratic and Liberal parties in May of 1955 and another in June between Democratic Party leader Hatoyama and Liberal Party leader Ogata further accelerated the movement toward a formal union of liberal democratic forces.
		Included with this were guidelines for party "regulations and principles" and "public relations and advertising" designed to contribute to its democratic administration.
		Additionally, the Party itself is characterized as being (1) a national party, (2) a pacifist party, (3) a genuinely democratic party, (4) a parliamentary party, (5) a progressive party, and (6) a party committed to creating a welfare state.
	www.jimin.jp /jimin/english/history/03.html (758 words)

	Asia Times Online :: Japan News and Japanese Business and Economy
		LDP sources said the party would not endorse party members who voted against the bills, a move that may force rebels to form their own party.
		Japan Post is a giant with about US$3 trillion in assets, including the world's biggest deposit-taking institution, and has nearly 25,000 offices and 260,000 employees.
		The Democratic Party of Japan displayed its growing electoral appeal by winning more seats than the LDP in the July 2004 Upper House election, even though the LDP retained its majority in the chamber with the help of its coalition partner, New Komeito, which won 10 seats.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Japan/GH09Dh01.html (1658 words)

	Liberal Democratic party - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It began as the conservative Liberal party, which, under Shigeru Yoshida, became the dominant political force in Japan following World War II.
		Upon Murayama's resignation early in 1996, Hashimoto became prime minister; Keizo Obuchi succeeded Hashimoto as party leader and prime minister in 1998.
		Liberal activists frustrated by direction of Democratic Party.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-libdpjap.html (461 words)

	Koizumi puts party and career on the line - Asia - Pacific - International Herald Tribune
		His struggle to ideologically divide politics in Japan - where it has always been hard to differentiate between the ideological lines of political groups - may be "the beginning of a long story that should end up with a two-party system based on political ideology," Kanno said.
		The Democrats had 176 seats in the dissolved lower house, while the LDP had a majority with 249.
		But the Democrats are increasingly popular among disenchanted voters, especially in urban areas, and made strong gains in the upper house election last year and in the previous lower house election in 2003.
	www.iht.com /articles/2005/08/09/news/japan.php (1019 words)

	Liberal Confusion : Friedrich Naumann Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In Europe, where programmatic political parties have long been an integral part of political culture, and also in the Americas and parts of Africa and Asia, there are only a few countries governed by manifestly liberal parties.
		In other languages and cultural settings, though, the term “liberal” has a completely different connotation: I remember conducting seminars on liberalism with students from Latin America, some of whom were almost embarrassed when asked for their definition of liberalism, as in their part of the world the term is associated with sexual aberration, even abnormality.
		Consider the so-called United Liberal Democrats in South Korea led by right-wing politician and Ex-General Kim Jong-pil or the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan.
	www.fnf.org.ph /liberalopinion/2002-12-12.htm (855 words)

	Japan - The Liberal Democratic Party in National Elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Following the three occasions when the LDP found itself a handful of seats shy of a majority, it was obliged to form alliances with conservative independents and the breakaway New Liberal Club.
		In the July 18, 1993, lower house elections, the LDP fell so far short of a majority that it was unable to form a government.
		The political crisis of 1988-89 was testimony to both the party's strength and its weakness.
	www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-7274.html (430 words)

	A Lack of Ideology: Local Tokyo elections
		In contrast, newer parties such as the ostensibly liberal Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) and the ostensibly conservative Shinshinto were big losers, winning only 1 seat between the two of them.
		Parties on the left tend to favor labor, a more powerful federal government and higher or more progressive taxation, whereas parties on the right tend to favor business, a greater emphasis on localities as opposed to federalism and lower, flatter taxes.
		Smaller parties, such as various green parties or anti-tax parties, are formed on one or a few specific issues, and tend to side with a major coalition partner in order to press their agenda through that partner.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/politics_east_asia/2394 (430 words)

	Japan Politics
		There is still dispute as to whether Japan is a constitutional monarchy or a republic.
		The LDP has been the dominant party for most of the post-war period since 1955, and is composed of a several factions which are oriented along personalistic rather than ideological lines.
		Japan's judicial system, drawn from customary law, civil law, and Anglo-American common law, consists of several levels of courts, with the Supreme Court as the final judicial authority.
	www.shododesigns.com /japaninformation/japanpolitics.htm (490 words)

	Ldp R.I.P.? International Economy, The - Find Articles
		Japan is the only advanced industrial country that remains a one-party state: The same party (including the LDP's predecessor parties) has ruled for all but two of the fifty-five years since the end of World War Two.
		It kept Japan in the Western camp during the Cold War and it created the political coalition underlying the economic miracle.
		For decades, the LDP successfully ruled as a "catch-all coalition," encompassing both the efficient and inefficient sectors of Japan's "dual economy." Initially, it both promoted economic growth and mediated the transfer of income from the efficient to the inefficient.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2633/is_3_14/ai_62548777 (918 words)

	Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For the majority of the 1960s, the LDP (and Japan) were led by Eisaku Sato, beginning with the hosting of the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, and ending in 1972 with Japanese neutrality in the Vietnam War and with the beginning of the Miracle Economy.
		The choice of party president was formally that of a party convention composed of Diet members and local LDP figures, but in most cases, they merely approved the joint decision of the most powerful party leaders.
		After the party president, the most important LDP officials are the Secretary-General (kanjicho), and the chairmen of the LDP Executive Council (somukaicho) and of the Policy Affairs Research Council (seimu chosakaicho).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Liberal_Democratic_Party_(Japan) (3468 words)

	CNN.com - Koizumi begins Japan's political shake-up - April 25, 2001
		A day before he is due to be sworn in as Japan's 11th prime minister in 13 years, Koizumi began Wednesday to replace the old guard of LDP lawmakers with allies more likely to help him make good on promises for reform.
		Taro Aso, who ran against Koizumi in the leadership election but came a distant third, was heavily tipped to be asked to serve as party policy chief, while and Mitsuo Horiuchi, a party powerbroker, is likely to head the party's General Council.
		Koizumi stunned Japan's political elite by taking the Liberal Democratic Party leadership election on Tuesday, a job that guarantees he will replace Mori, who is stepping down amid plunging support ratings.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/east/04/25/japan.koizumi.win (870 words)

	Japan's Liberal Democratic Party elects leader - winner replaces departing PM Junichero Koizumi 20 September 2006
		The presidency is decided by a vote of the 296 LDP members of the House of Representatives and 115 LDP members of the House of Councilors, and their choice is all but certain to be elected prime minister in the LDP-controlled government.
		Japan's economic recovery rests on trade with its Asian neighbors, so a candidate who looks most able to repair Japan's tense relations with China, South Korea and other Asian countries could be favored.
		The shrine and the visits are seen by countries invaded by Japan as glorification of the country's militaristic past.
	www.newsahead.com /PREVIEW/Japan_party_election_Sep_06.htm (450 words)

	Professor Robert Pekkanen - Research - Political Parties
		Through an analysis of Japan's mixed-member electoral system, we demonstrate that legislative organization is strongly influenced not just by the individual legislator's reelection incentives, but also by their interest in their party gaining power and maintaining a strong party label.
		The article is entitled "Policy Dissension and Party Discipline: The July 2005 Vote on Postal Privatization in Japan." As the title implies, it is a study of party discipline.
		Japan’s contribution to the US-led Gulf War in 1991 was widely deemed inadequate because it was “merely” money ($13 billion), yet, even with tenuous UN authorization, there are 1,000 pairs of Japanese Self-Defense Force (SDF) “boots on the ground” in Iraq today.
	faculty.washington.edu /pekkanen/research2.htm (1408 words)

	CNN.com - Maverick Koizumi leading race for Japan PM - April 22, 2001
		TOKYO, Japan -- A popular former health minister is widely expected to sweep the elections to decide who will lead Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party and become the country's prime minister.
		Media reports say local party activists, particularly post office workers that are against his plans to privatize the postal system, were collecting blank voting cards and filling them in with Hashimoto's name.
		Columnists say a Hashimoto win under those conditions could well convince the voters that the LDP is incapable of change, resulting in a defeat for the party in July's Upper House poll.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/east/04/21/japan.politics.02 (470 words)

	Editorial: A vote for modernity / Japan's PM wins a mandate for change (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The bigger than expected victory of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's Liberal Democratic Party in Japan's parliamentary elections Sunday was good for Japan, good for the East Asian region and good for the United States.
		That isn't just an operation that sells pretty stamps; Japan's postal system provides a range of services to millions of customers, including serving as a banking and insurance institution, the sort of thick-skinned Godzilla-type antique structure that is the personification of what is wrong with a Japanese economy modernizing with difficulty.
		A strong Japan has been living side by side with a strong China and a strengthening Korea for thousands of years.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/05257/570801.stm (456 words)

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