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	Encyclopedia: Liberal Party (Japan) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The party was an offspring of the aikokusha.
		Liberal Party (1998), founded in 1998 from the remnants of the Shinshinto.
		It merged with the Democratic Party of Japan in 2003.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Liberal-Party-(Japan) (239 words)

	Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), also known as Jiyū Minshutō (自由民主党, or the abbreviation Jimin-tō 自民党) is a center-right conservative party and the largest political party in Japan, as of 2005.
		It is not to be confused with the now-defunct Liberal Party (1998), which in November 2003 merged with the main opposition party, the Democratic Party of Japan.
		For the majority of the 1960s, the LDP (and Japan) were led by Eisaku Sato, beginning with the hosting of the Olympics in Tokyo in 1964, and ending in 1972 with Japanese neutrality in the Vietnam War and with the beginning of the Miracle Economy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Liberal_Democratic_Party_(Japan) (3101 words)

	Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Japan (Nippon/Nihon 日本 (the characters mean sun, and root/origin), literally "the origin of the sun") is a country in East Asia situated between the Pacific Ocean and east of the Korean peninsula.
		Japan comprises a chain of islands, the largest of which are, from south to north, Kyushu (九州), Shikoku (四国), Honshu (本州, the largest island), and Hokkaido (北海道).
		In opposition are the Democratic Party of Japan, the Social Democratic Party, and the Japanese Communist Party.
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/j/ja/japan_1.html (3259 words)

	Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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.
		New Party Sakigake (which had changed its name to Sakigake) was in the coalition until 2002, when the party dissolved itself and formed the Midori no Kaigi, an ecologist party, which has no seats in the Diet, which unofficially supported the government, but dissolved itself.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Liberal_Democratic_Party_(Japan) (1509 words)

	Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It is not to be confused with the now-defunct Jiyuto (Liberal Party), which merged with the main opposition party, the Democratic Party of Japan, in November 2003.
		The LDP was formed in 1955 as a party merger between Japan's two oppositional parties, the Japanese Liberal Party and the Japanese Democratic Party, both center-right conservative parties - as a united front against the then very popular Japanese Socialist Party.
		This is because the LDP is the party of the zaibutsu, or the Japanese bureaucrats.
	encyclopedia.learnthis.info /l/li/liberal_democratic_party__japan_.html (672 words)

	LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY (JAPAN) STYLES, FASHION AND RESEARCH CENTER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), also known as JiyÅ« MinshutÅ (èªç”±æ°‘ä¸»å, or the abbreviation Jimin-tÅ èªæ°‘å) is a right-wing conservative party and the largest political_party in Japan, as of 2005.
		The LDP was formed in 1955 as a party merger between Japan's two oppositional parties, the Liberal Party (èªç”±å ''Jiyu-Tou'' 1950-1955, Led to Shigeru_Yoshida) and the Japan Democratic Party (æ—¥æ¬æ°‘ä¸»å ''Nihon Minsyu-Tou'' 1954-1955, Led to Ichiro_Hatoyama), both right-wing conservative parties, as a united front against the then popular Japan_Socialist_Party.
		Its leaders in the 1950s also made the LDP the main government party, and in all the elections of the 1950s, the LDP won the majority vote, with the only other opposition coming from the left-wing, made up of the Japan Socialist Party and the Japanese_Communist_Party.
	www.cashorclothes.com /Liberal_Democratic_Party_(Japan) (2980 words)

	Liberal League biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Liberal League; Japanese Jiyu Rengo (自由連合); is a conservative-liberal political party in Japan.
		The party was formed in 2001 and won a few seats in its first election; however, in the 2003 parliamentary elections, it won only one.
		On domestic policy, the party is a liberal party.
	liberal-league.biography.ms (191 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 result of the new amalgamation was a large party that represented a broad spectrum of interests but had minimal organization compared with the socialist and other leftist parties.
	countrystudies.us /japan/122.htm (2190 words)

	Politics of Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Japan no longer officially has the traditional federal system, and its 47 prefectures depend on the central government for most funding.
		The LDP formed a governing coalition with the Liberal Party in January 1999, and Keizo Obuchi remained prime minister.
		The Social Democrat Party of Japan is Japan's fifth largest party and the junior partner in the opposition coalition.
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	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)

	Japan buys time in Korea
		While the war between the nations may have never ended -- Kim's government was recently implicated in the assassination of a large part of the Southern government's cabinet and the bombing of an airliner -- the cultural ties between the inhabitants of the divided region seems to have survived.
		If Japan makes such payments, it would, in effect, declare that North Korea's punishment for its history of waging war against a member of the United Nations and sponsoring terrorism, militarism, and other nastiness is the infusion of enough cash into the North's economy to keep it solvent for years.
		Japan's plan to aid North Korea is appeasement to a monster that it fears, rather than concern for the development of a fruitful friendship.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V110/N43/hersch.43o.html (763 words)

	Background Notes: Japan 3/99
		Traditional Japanese legend maintains that Japan was founded in 600 BC by the Emperor Jimmu, a direct descendant of the sun goddess and ancestor of the present ruling imperial family.
		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.
		Japan's Government is a parliamentary democracy, with a House of Representatives and a House of Councillors.
	dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/bgnotes/eap/japan9903.html (5848 words)

	Post World War II Party Development (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Liberal Democratic Party was established from a combination of conservative forces.
		The Liberal Democratic Party’s conservative majority began to crumble, partly due to growing political distrust as a result of high profile political scandals.
		The 1998 election failed to produce an upper house majority for the LDP and the success of the Democratic party was so complete that the LDP had to court the Liberals and the Komeito to pass legislation.
	alpha.fdu.edu /~woolley/JAPANpolitics/Short.HTM (1132 words)

	ipedia.com: Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), also known as Jiyu Minshuto (自由民主党, more often abbreviated to Jimin-to 自民党) is the largest Japanese political party as of 2004.
		The only visible opposition it recieved was from the Japan Socialist Party (now the Social Democratic Party of Japan), the Japanese Communist Party, and the Clean Government Party now the New Clean Government Party).
		On November 10, 2003, the New Conservative Party (Hoshu Shinto) was absorbed into the LDP, a move which was largely because of the New Conservative Party's failiure to win 5 seats (it won 4).
	www.ipedia.com /liberal_democratic_party__japan_.html (838 words)

	E-ASPAC
		Kennan saw the weakness of Japan’s economy as fertile soil for the growth of communism and felt that occupation policies had been devised for the specific purposes of rendering Japanese society vulnerable to communist political pressures and of paving the way for communism’s takeover of Japan.
		The Liberal Party won the HR general elections of October 1952 with 240 seats (out of 466 seats); however it lost 42 seats from the time of dissolution.
		Yoshida was hoping that the Liberal Party could still win the HR elections and yelled at Ikeda, “Fire Ogata.” In the meantime, Kishi, along with the two factions of the JSP, agreed to submit a bill for a nonconfidence vote in the Yoshida cabinet on December 7, 1954.
	mcel.pacificu.edu /easpac/2003/itoh.php3 (6479 words)

	Liberal-Democratic Party -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		It was the major party in opposition to the Conservatives until 1918, after which it was supplanted by the Labour Party.
		The Liberals continued as a minor party until 1988, when they merged with the Social Democratic Party to form what is now called the Liberal...
		In 1980, the Democratic Party was a house that was divided among the Kennedy and Carter camps.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9048114 (755 words)

	CALD News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In addition to the current 8 member-parties (Democrat Party of Thailand, Democratic Progressive Party of Taiwan, the Liberal Parties of the Philippines and Sri Lanka, the Singapore Democratic Party, the National Council of the Union of Burma and the Sam Rainsy Party of Cambodia), CALD currently has eight observer organizations.
		Prior to the three groups, the CALD observers are the Indonesian Democracy Party of Struggle (PDI-P) and the National Awakening Party (PKB) of Indonesia, the Democrat Party and the Liberal Party of Japan and the Millennium Democratic Party of Korea.
		The Liberal Forum of Pakistan (www.liberal-forum-pakistan.sdnk.org) is a civil society initiative, which evolved after discussions among concerned citizens from various parts of the country.
	www.cald.org /news/newmembers.htm (628 words)

	Las Vegas SUN: Japan could be next Asian hotbed for legalized gaming
		Ichiro Tanioka, who has conducted a series of studies on behalf of Japan's Liberal Party, said the stage is set for the introduction of legalized gaming in Japan.
		Tanioka said that there already is a proliferation of illegal gambling in Japan and that the number of pachinko and pachislo machines operating in Japan outnumbers slot machines worldwide.
		He said local government leaders within the Japanese Liberal Party would make efforts to try to persuade opposition groups to change their minds, since there isn't enough support nationally to pass a law to allow casinos.
	www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/business/2005/jun/28/518971203.html (377 words)

	NCI document
		The words were spoken by former Liberal Democratic Party heavyweight Ichiro Ozawa, who now runs the tiny opposition Liberal Party, which is big on promoting economic reform and stronger national security.
		Sure, he isn't the force he used to be and, like any pol, he knows that making headlines once in a while is vital to staying in the public's consciousness.
		The reality is that Japan lives in an increasingly dangerous neighborhood, and confronting that reality is far healthier than ignoring it.
	www.nci.org /02NCI/04/japan-articles.htm (2821 words)

	Powell's Books - Japan's Postwar Party Politics by Masaru Kohno
		Because of the long one-party dominance by the Liberal Democratic Party, Japan's parliamentary democracy has often been viewed as unique in the developed world, and most of the existing studies of Japanese party politics have addressed such determinants as its political culture, historical background, and socio-ideological cleavages.
		According to Kohno, the evolution of political life in postwar Japan depends on the same factors that are acknowledged to be at work in other industrialized nations.
		Because Japan has usually been treated as a country of unique cultural, historical, and societal characteristics, the analyses of this study point to the broader applicability of the microanalytic approach in the field of comparative politics, especially for the exploration of party competition in advanced industrial democracies.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-0691015961-0 (490 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Rajiva Wijesinha, Kamal Nissanka, Dr. Newton Pieris and Swarna Amaratunga of The Liberal Party of Sri Lanka join with other liberal parties in Asia in celebration of the 10th foundation anniversary of The Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats (CALD).
		Member parties of CALD are Democratic Progressive Party of Taiwan, Democratic Party of Thailand, The Liberal Party of Philippines, The Party Gerakan Rakyat of Malaysia, Singapore Democratic Party, The Liberal Party of Sri Lanka, Sam Rainsy Party of Cambodia and National Council of Union of Burma.
		Aside from member parties, CALD regularly engages with The Liberal Party of Japan, The Millennium Democratic Party of Korea and National Awakening Party of Indonesia.
	www.dailynews.lk /2003/12/12/new50.html (484 words)

	Democratic Liberal Party of Japan - Maison de Stuff
		So, it would seem the Japanese Liberal Democratic Party are going to be challenged at the next election by the Democratic Liberal Party of Japan.
		FRANCIS: And the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan.
		Japan is really great country and very good people and they are victims of Americans.
	www.maison-de-stuff.net /archives/00000121.html (1390 words)

	Japan_Society
		The Liberal Democratic Party-Japan's dominant political party for most of the postwar period until now-later used Cold War developments as a justification for fielding a Self-Defense Force (SDF), but throughout most of the postwar era Japan relied mainly on American military protection under the U.S.-Japan security arrangement.
		The success of the LDP and Democratic Party of Japan in the November 9th election (both of which support the continued use of SDF forces in peacekeeping missions overseas, though the DPJ specifies only in the context of U.N.-mandated missions) adds to the momentum.
		Judicial Reform: Japan is in the process of increasing its number of lawyers and judges, and making the judicial system itself a more independent institution; one of the most important among these measures is the removal of legal training from government control and the establishment of private law schools
	www.ias.berkeley.edu /orias/2004/JapanSecurity.htm (1836 words)

	The Japan Times Online
		FUKUOKA (Kyodo) In an apparent effort to check China's growing power, Liberal Party leader Ichiro Ozawa on Saturday made remarks to the effect that Japan could easily become a nuclear power.
		Japan has enough plutonium in use at its nuclear power plants for three to four thousand (of them)," Ozawa said.
		While he emphasized that the aim of his remarks was to call for the forging of a closer bilateral relationship and create a "society where both nations can coexist," some observers said the comments would be roundly criticized as they have touched upon the delicate subject of Japan's nuclear armament.
	www.nci.org /02/04f/07-07.htm (197 words)

	Japan Now Closer to a Two-Party System - Plus, Nigeria dubs the U.S. a sponsor of terrorism. By Nancy Palus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Liberal Democratic Party-led three-party coalition won 275 seats in the 480-seat chamber, down from 287, while the opposition Democratic Party of Japan increased its seats by 40, to 177.
		One stark difference between Koizumi's camp and the opposition DPJ is in their stance on Iraq, and papers said the Democratic Party's gains will mean a tough fight for the government in its support of the U.S.-led coalition.
		According to Mainichi Shimbun, the Democratic Party leader said, "We'd like to step up our demands that the government abandon dispatching Self-Defense Force personnel to Iraq." The paper said the Koizumi government is close to adopting a plan on the nature and extent of SDF involvement in Iraq.
	slate.msn.com /id/2091045 (750 words)

	National Review: No tidal wave - Japanese voters convey their lack of confidence in the Liberal Democratic Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The messages from the leaders of two of the three new breakaway parties here appealed to the mood of an electorate increasingly restive with yuchaku-kozo-roughly, "stick adherence to the structure." For 38 years the Liberal--Democratic Party--often described as neither liberal nor democratic--had dominated the lower house of Diet.
		For all that time the party had maintained enough discipline for its lower-house majority automatically to elect the LDP president as prime minister.
		Hosokawa, who had found his New Japan Party last year, certainly does not seem to have been cast in the same mold as Hata.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n15_v45/ai_13284497 (1034 words)

	Liberal.ca - Liberal Party of Canada
		According to StatsCan, so far this year job creation is 1.3 per cent higher than last year, with most of the year's gains in full-time positions within the private sector.
		This website is the property of the Liberal Party of Canada and may not be reproduced in whole or in part without express written permission.
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	www.liberal.ca /lpc/default.aspx (259 words)

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