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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 (1824 words)

	Komeito torn between LDP, Soka Gakkai
		New Komeito might face increasingly severe criticism both within and outside the party if the SDF suffers casualties, he added, noting this might strengthen the pacifist stance of Soka Gakkai members ahead of the Upper House election in July.
		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)

	Center for Voting and Democracy
		New Komeito's showing in spite of the trend in favor of a two-party system was attributable to the party's success in obtaining support from eligible voters who usually back the Liberal Democratic Party in the proportional representation contests.
		New Komeito leader Takenori Kanzaki, in a meeting of the party's prefectural chapter officials from across the country on Saturday, announced that New Komeito will pursue victories in the next upper house race in all electoral districts where it fields candidates, as well as garnering 10 million ballots or more in the proportional representation races.
		If New Komeito intensifies its pressure for the LDP to throw its support behind the party in the proportional representation contests in the coming upper house election, anti-New Komeito sentiments may grow among LDP members to the extent of jeopardizing the ruling coalition.
	www.fairvote.org /pr/global/japankomeito.htm (1011 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).
		New Komeito's role as junior coalition partner, however, is not without some controversy.
		New Komeito's appeal is essentially limited to Soka Gakkai faithful, and this makes it unlikely to break out beyond its narrow electoral support base.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Japan/FG30Dh04.html (1674 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.
		Party leader and Prime Minister Ashida Hitoshi resigned after he was implicated in a bribery scandal which brought down the government.
		It wasn't until 1945 that the current party was formed and it was the main oppostion force of the postwar period.
	www.japan-zone.com /omnibus/political_party.shtml (818 words)

	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.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_Komeito (419 words)

	New Party Sakigake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1994, New Party Sakigake took part in the government of Murayama Tomiichi, a government coalition of the Liberal Democrats and the Japan Socialist Party, which replaced the liberal coalition headed the previous year by the Japan Renewal Party.
		The Sakigake Party took part in the government of Murayama Tomiichi, which was basically a government coalition with the LDP and the Japan Socialist Party.
		In 1997, the New Party Sakigake had 2 members in the House of Representatives and 3 members in the House of Councillors, which was good for them, especially after the LDP became the ruling party again.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Party_Sakigake (322 words)

	President Hu stresses party exchanges with Japan
		BEIJING -- Chinese President Hu Jintao on Monday said exchanges between the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the major political parties of Japan, including the New Komeito Party, the minority member of Japan's coalition government, are extremely important.
		In a meeting with Akihiro Ota, head of the New Komeito, Hu spoke highly of the New Komeito's long-term friendly policy toward China.
		The New Komeito Party also believes developing good-neighborly and cooperative relations with China is important, Ota said.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /china/2007-01/08/content_777853.htm (249 words)

	Japan Snap Poll-Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi Pledging his Political Future
		While the ruling party, the LDP, and Koizumi are to stake the campaign on the reformist agenda, the rebels and opposition parties are putting reforms on back burners.
		If the New Komeito Party decides to shift its support to the opposition, the political future of Koizumi may be sealed off forever.
		Expunging 37 members of the lower houses (read anti-reformists), the LDP backed by the New Komeito Party is likely to be contesting the September 11, 2005, general elections with a narrow margin, barely five more than the required majority in the lower house of 480.
	www.frost.com /prod/servlet/cif-econ-insight.pag?docid=46714195 (1040 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Policy politics takes rare limelight as rivals spar in Japanese election ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Democratic Party, Japan's biggest opposition group, has countered with its own policy platform, while the New Komeito Party, the LDP's junior coalition partner, has distanced itself from Koizumi over his visits to Tokyo's controversial Yasukuni war shrine.
		Democratic Party head Katsuya Okada argued that the government must tackle other reforms such as revamping the country's ailing national pension system, raising the consumption tax and cutting the budget.
		Parties in the upcoming elections are circling around distinctive policies to maintain unity and win support.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20050829-1856-japan-politics.html (593 words)

	tribuneindia... World
		In yesterday’s talks, the secretaries general of the three parties reached a compromise on a plan to slash 50 seats in the 500-member House of Representatives — the key stumbling block for the three parties to strike a policy deal.
		Of the 50, the parties agreed to eliminate 20 proportional representation seats first by enacting a relevant law at the extraordinary Diet session expected to be convened in November, and put it into practice from the next general election, which must be held by October next year.
		NEW YORK: Nepalese Prime Minister Krishna Prasad Bhattarai has been awarded this year’s ‘U Thant Peace Prize’ for his ‘‘life-long commitment to peace and freedom.’’ ‘‘We are honoured to pay tribute to an illustrious peace builder who is ushering in a glorious new millennium of world harmony,’’ the citation awarded to the Nepalese leader said.
	www.tribuneindia.com /1999/99oct05/world.htm (3263 words)

	Worldandnation: Japanese ruling party selects friend of Obuchi as new leader
		Using a samurai term, as is common in Japanese politics, to amplify on that, party leaders said Mori would act to settle old scores in revenge for Obuchi's incapacitation.
		A leader of his own faction within the conservative LDP, Mori was a close friend and ally of Obuchi's and maintained good relations with the New Komeito party, a key member of the government's ruling coalition.
		A consensus-builder and behind-the-scenes power broker, he rose swiftly through the party's ranks until his reputation was damaged in the 1980s, when he was one of many senior party figures implicated in a scandal involving the publisher Recruit, which gave away shares in exchange for political favors.
	www.sptimes.com /News/040500/Worldandnation/Japanese_ruling_party.shtml (819 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Prime minister leads Japan's fractured ruling party into dicey parliamentary ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Waiting in the wings this time is the Democratic Party, which analysts say is unlikely to win an outright majority in Parliament but could get control by forming a coalition, possibly with LDP defectors.
		New, younger candidates that the LDP fields to go up against excommunicated party veterans aren't likely to win and will be a liability, he said.
		Koizumi's zeal for privatizing Japan Post ran afoul of party members, in part, because its $2.9 trillion in savings and insurance accounts have been used to finance the public works projects that are at the heart of LDP's pork-barrel system.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20050808-1456-japan-elections.html (755 words)

	E_News March 3 1999
		The two parties agreed to cut the number of proportional representation seats in the 500-member lower house to 150 from the current 200.
		Israel on May 17 will hold its second elections with its new system in which voters cast one vote directly for prime minister and one for parliament: a splitting of votes that had the unintended consequence of further fracturing of the party system in the first use of the system.
		Party leader Ehud Barak, who won the party's nomination for prime minister, has already been given the No. 1 slot, followed by second place for Shimon Peres, a former prime minister from Labor, and then by the candidates elected in the primaries....
	www.fairvote.org /e_news/990303.htm (3512 words)

	Asia Times: Obuchi asks New Komeito to join cabinet
		TOKYO - Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi formally asked the New Komeito party to join his cabinet and become part of the ruling coalition.
		Obuchi suggested coordinating policy among the three parties in an as-yet-unformed consultative body in August, when budget requests for next fiscal year will be drafted.
		But for this to happen, the parties will have to agree on basic policies, Ozawa said.
	www.atimes.com /japan-econ/AG09Dh02.html (186 words)

	Soka Gakkai--NEWS: 2003 Newsletters-Soka Gakkai Reaffirms Support for New Komeito Party (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The council evaluated the efforts of the New Komeito party over the past four years in its role as a coalition partner in the current government, and deemed the party has continued to advance reforms that benefit the lives of ordinary citizens, while striving for stability of the Japanese political system.
		The CCSA also highly praised the New Komeito Party for being the first party to present a "manifesto," a political pledge to the voting public, that clearly specifies party policy objectives and timetables for their enactment.
		Consequently, the Central Council on Social Affairs formally announced Soka Gakkai's endorsement of the New Komeito party's House of Representatives proportional representation candidates in the upcoming elections.
	www.sokagakkai.info /html3/news3/newsletters3/03newsltrs3/n3_030913-b.html (204 words)

	Akihiro Ota, New Komeito Chief Representative \| FCCJ: The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan
		In the first leadership change in nearly a decade, the New Komeito Party selected the 61 year old to manage the coalition with the dominant Liberal Democratic Party and its leader Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
		Groomed for the Komeito's top job, Ota held a series of senior party posts until his inauguration in September, including campaign chief.
		Come hear what the former reporter for the party newspaper has to say about how the Komeito will handle the hawkish Abe administration, the prospects for next summer's crucial Upper House election and how it will make its voice heard in the coalition.
	www.fccj.or.jp /node/1593 (356 words)

	Political Parties and Party Systems Page of the Japan Considered Project at the University of South Carolina Robert ...
		Emphasis is on the major parties and their activities.
		Japan's largest political party, the LDP's English language website provides the text of the LDP Constitution, a history of the Party's organization and activities, a convenient Party organizational chart, and personal profiles of key LDP officials.
		The Socialist Party is the only major Japanese political party that does not maintain an English language version of their web page.
	www.japan.poli.sc.edu /PartiesPartySystems.htm (326 words)

	New Komeito Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Domestically, the Party proposals include reduction of the central government and bureaucracy, increased transparency in public affairs, and increased local (prefectural) autonomy with the private sector playing an increased role.
		As the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's junior coalition partner, it is becoming a major political force in modern Japan.
		Currently, the party is in a majority coalition with the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Clean_Government_Party (437 words)

	CNNfyi.com - In the dark - March 13, 2001
		No date was set for the party's election race, nor did he state emphatically that he would not run.
		The LDP's ruling partners, the New Komeito Party and the New Conservatives, favor crafty LDP elder Hiromu Nonaka, 75.
		Chikage Ogi, head of the New Conservative Party and a former actress, has been mentioned as a dark horse candidate should the LDP fail to agree on a successor from its own ranks.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/fyi/news/03/13/mori.japan (1151 words)

	East-West Center: Events: Sheila Smith: Koizumi's Landslide Election a Watershed Moment in Japanese Politics
		It punished the 37 party members in the lower house who voted against the prime minister's postal reform legislation this summer, a priority set forth by Koizumi himself as the crucial test of the country's ability to institute structural reforms.
		But, she regards the blow to the main opposition party, DPJ's failure to take advantage of the hastily called election and the struggle within the LDP, the bigger victory.
		With a significant majority of seats in the lower house, the LDP coalition with the New Komeito party is no longer technically necessary but Koizumi has announced he will continue to work with his coalition partners.
	www.eastwestcenter.org /events-en-detail.asp?news_ID=297 (991 words)

	AsiaSource: AsiaTODAY - A resource of the Asia Society
		The ruling coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party, New Komeito and New Conservative Party, currently holds 270 seats in the parliament, and despite the growing unpopularity of Prime Minister Mori over several controversial remarks, the party is aiming to retain a majority of the seats.
		The main opposition party, the Democratic Party of Japan, currently holds 95 seats, and though it is possible for them to create an alliance with other opposition forces such as the communist or socialist parties, they have not been able to identify with another party thus far.
		The Liberal Democratic Party is placing priority on the promotion of economic recovery, while the Democratic Party of Japan is focusing on a plan to balance the budget and reduce the minimum taxable income.
	www.asiasource.org /news/at_mp_02.cfm?newsid=23495 (743 words)

	USATODAY.com - Japan's ruling bloc wins in elections (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The announcement means the ruling party, which also is supported by the Buddhist-backed New Komeito Party, tightened its grip on the powerful chamber — retaining control of all committees as well as the ability to pass legislation.
		The merger with the New Conservatives gave it four more seats, while its other junior partner, the Buddhist-backed New Komeito Party, had 34, giving the bloc a total majority of 278 — down from 287 before the election.
		The only time in the past 50 years a non-LDP bloc has controlled the government was a brief period from 1993 to 1994, when groups of lawmakers broke with the LDP in the wake of a power struggle.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2003-11-10-japan-elections_x.htm (906 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Japanese leader dissolves Parliament, call elections in wake of reform defeat
		The showdown could shake the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's grip on power, since defections from Koizumi's LDP helped defeat the postal plan on a 125-108 vote in the upper house of Parliament.
		The opposition Democratic Party started gearing up for the Sept. 11 election, hoping to building on the strong gains it made in last year's upper house elections and in the previous lower house ballot in 2003.
		The political crisis stirred memories of an eight-month period between 1993 and 1994 when a group of LDP lawmakers broke with the party and led to a non-LDP bloc holding control of the government for the only time in 50 years.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,600154342,00.html (719 words)

	Report: Japan to Pick New PM Sept. 26, Japan's Parliament Will Convene Sept. 26 to Choose a New Prime ...
		The parliament gathering is to follow the Sept. 20 leadership election of the ruling LDP party.
		Whoever wins that race is expected to become prime minister because the party holds the majority of seats in parliament's powerful lower house.
		The main opposition Democratic Party of Japan is likely to agree to the plan, drawn up by the LDP and its junior coalition partner, the New Komeito party, to convene the parliament session on that day, Kyodo News agency reported, citing unnamed LDP officials.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/09/05/ap/world/mainD8JUM4F8M.shtml (287 words)

	hmmn » Blog Archive » Give us our daily bread
		I actually recently had a conversation with a Komeito candidate for local office in Yokosuka, and we talked about a number of the things that Komeito has done, and is doing.
		Because of its cult associations, Komeito isn’t going to go anywhere but back to the recycling bin to be melted down and reformed into another party (wasn’t it “Sakigake” a few years ago).
		The Komeito candidates in my area seem good on paper, my wife said, but the idea that you would be putting power in the hands of a religious organization is scary to the average Japanese, after the murderous Aum and the bizarro Ho-no-hana.
	www.easterwood.org /hmmn/?p=257 (773 words)

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