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  Ancient Japan - 10
Japan subsequently agreed to retire from Shantung, and, shortly thereafter, Japanese armies withdrew from Siberia and northern Sakhalin.
Meanwhile, Japan avoided stronger involvement in the civil war in China and pursued a conciliatory course with the Soviet Union, despite demands from nationalists, who utilized alleged outrages in China and the discriminatory U.S. Immigration Act of 1924 to warn of the futility of cooperating with Western nations.
At the same time, rural Japan provided the bulk of the labourers for the new industries, and daughters from farming families were found in many textile plants.
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 Rightist Socialist Party of Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Rightist Socialist Party of Japan was a Japanese political party that existed between 1948 and 1955.
Following the defeat of the Japan Socialist Party (JSP) in 1948 at the hands of Japan's two main conservative parties, the Liberal Party and the Democrat Party, the JSP dissolved into chaos and internal bickering between moderates and Marxist-Leninists.
The left-wing was in chaos between 1948 and 1955, and in early 1955, the Rightist Socialists and the Leftist Socialists reconciled and merged to reform the JSP, months before the Liberal Democrat Party was created through the merger of the Liberal and Democrat Parties.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rightist_Socialist_Party_of_Japan   (296 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Japan - The Status of the Emperor | Japanese Information Resource
The emperor is neither head of state nor sovereign, as are many European constitutional monarchs, although in October 1988 Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs claimed, controversially, that the emperor is the country's sovereign in the context of its external relations.
Rightists, such as members of the Society to Protect Japan (Nihon o Mamoru Kai), a nationwide lobbying group, demanded full public support of the ceremonies as expression of the people's love for their monarch.
The "symbolic" role of the emperor after 1945, however, recalled feudal Japan, where political power was monopolized and exercised by the shoguns, and where the imperial court carried on a leisurely, apolitical existence in the ancient capital of Kyoto and served as patrons of culture and the arts (see Kamakura and Muromachi Periods, 1185-1573, ch.
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 Leftist Socialist Party of Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Leftist Socialist Party of Japan was a Japanese political party that existed between 1948 and 1955.
Following the defeat of the Japan Socialist Party (JSP) in 1948 at the hands of Japan's two main conservative parties, the Liberal Party and the Democrat Party, the Japan Socialist Party dissolved into chaos and internal bickering between moderates and Marxist-Leninists.
The Leftist Socialists generally had the upper hand in the reunified JSP, causing a few rightists to leave the Party in 1960 to create the Democratic Socialist Party.
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 Part III   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
On the contrary, the aggressive role of Japan in the enslavement of Korea and China are well-established.
The attitude of the Western powers with this blatantly colonial action of Japan was one of silent consent with due consideration to her military capability and with hopes that the Western colonies remain untouched.
Japan was able to restrict the naval growth of the western powers while plotting to expand its interests in Manchuria where its Kwantung Army was stationed.
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 Socialism Today - The US occupation of Japan
Following Japan’s capitulation on 15 August 1945, after atom bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the country became a de facto US colony under the Supreme Command for the Allied Powers (SCAP) headed by MacArthur.
Japan’s post-war radicalisation had seen union ranks swell from 380,000 at the end of 1945 to 5.6 million a year later.
Japan did rearm but resisted the wilder notions of US spokesmen and attempts to drag it into the Korean war.
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 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 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.
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.
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 Japan - The Government and Politics
She was middle-aged when political parties controlled the government during the "Taisho democracy" era of the early to mid-1920s and revolutionary Marxism was popular among university students and intellectuals.
Certainly Japan's economic dynamism is often explained in terms of the coupling of feudal values with the efficiency of modern organization.
This party, which had broken off from the LDP in the spring of 1992 formed a coalition with the Shinseito (Japan Renewal Party) and Sakigake (Harbinger) parties, which had separated from the LDP just prior to the election, as well as with the Komeito and three socialist parties.
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 Is Japan Leaking?
The constitutional pacifism denying the possession of an aggressive military force and the separation of Okinawa from the jurisdiction of Japan have led to the construction of a weak sense of territorial self-defense among the mainland Japanese.
The postwar politics of Japan had reflected this so-called "the Year 55 Regime"(Gojyugonen-taisei) consisting of the conservative, state-developmentalist and protectionist ideology of the LDP and the reformist, worker-oriented, and pacifist ideology of the SDPJ.
In this paper, East Asia is referred to as Japan, China, NIEs (South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore) and the ASEAN (Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, Laos, Myanmar, and Singapore) according to the definition of MITI (1999).
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 The Truth About Labour - The Phoney Left
Since the party now had a loyalty pledge and it supported the arbitration system – a policy which represented a major shift for many of the party’s founders - many radicals who continued to be opponents of the arbitration system were excluded from membership.
Yet whether a party is actually a political party of the working-class does not depend merely on a membership of workers but also upon the people who lead it, its programme, the content of its actions and its political tactics.
Basically, the parliamentary Labour Party was primarily interested in using the FOL to ensure the dampening down of any worker militancy, while maintaining the regular flow of cash from the unions into the party coffers and election workers every three years.
www.workersparty.org.nz /other/thetruthaboutlabour.htm   (13049 words)

  
 The Militant - July 6, 2004 -- Nader courts liberals, radicals, rightists in presidential bid
The Reform Party was founded by billionaire Ross Perot, who in 1992 won 19 percent of the presidential vote by making a radical rightist appeal to the insecure middle classes.
Buchanan, like the group founded by Perot, denounces the two main capitalist parties for betraying the needs of “the little guy.” But unlike Perot’s followers, who promote an electoral movement, Buchanan is an incipient fascist politician whose longer-term goal is to recruit cadres to build a popular, ultrarightist street movement.
The leading contender for nomination at the Green Party convention is David Cobb, a leader of the party from Texas, who represents Greens who are uncomfortable with challenging the Democratic Party directly in the elections.
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 Hal Draper: The Myth of Lenin's "Concept of The Party" (1990)
Notoriously it was a party composed overwhelmingly of bourgeois intelligentsia.
He thought he was putting forward a view of party and movement that was the same as that of the best parties of the International, particularly the German party under the leadership of August Bebel – only allowing for the big difference that the Russian movement faced the special problems of illegality under an autocracy.
Despite the split, the Social-Democratic Party earlier than any of the other parties was able to take advantage of the temporary spell of freedom to build a legal organization with an ideal democratic structure, an electoral system, and representation at congresses according to the number of organized members.
www.marxists.org /archive/draper/works/1990/myth/myth.htm   (10962 words)

  
 Nobusuke Kishi Summary
Japan's relations with the United States overshadowed all other issues in Kishi's three-year term, from 1957 to the summer of 1960.
Among the Socialists, neutralist sentiment, favoring abrogation of the treaty, was strong.
In 1955, the Democratic Party and Liberal Party merged to elect Ichirō Hatoyama as the head of the new Liberal Democratic Party.
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 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.
At the beginning, the party appeared to be evenly split; however, the Ono faction decided to side with Yoshida, which determined the dominance of the Yoshida faction.
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.
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 City Mayors: Local elections
The party made gains in local and rural areas in the recent elections but was beaten by the Liberals in most of Poland's cities, except for Lodz, where the incumbent mayor Jerzy Kropiwnicki won a second term.
APRA party won the elections in the northern region of La Liberdad but lost the mayorship in the capital of Trujillo, traditionally the party's main stronghold.
However, Pasok, the socialist party, took control of the port city of Pireaus and retained the prefecture of Athens and Pireaus, a regional district where almost half of Greece's population lives.
www.citymayors.com /news/metronews_elections.html   (4752 words)

  
 HITLER WAS A SOCIALIST   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
It should further be noted in this connection that the various European Socialist parties in World War I did not generally oppose the war in the name of international worker brotherhood but rather threw their support behind the various national governments of the countries in which they lived.
And socialist parties such as the British Labour Party were patriotic parties in World War II as well.
Hitler was, however, more Rightist than Stalin in the sense that, as a popular leader, he did not need to resort to extreme forms of oppressive control over his people (Unger, 1965).
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 People's Weekly World - Rising Japanese militarism sparks Asian protests   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Japan’s right-wing Prime Minister Juinichi Koizumi has repeatedly visited the Yakasuni Shrine, the burial site of top Japanese war criminals responsible for atrocities in China and Korea in the 1930s and ’40s.
Japan is currently seeking a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, but China, worried by Japan’s recent acts, appears likely to block any such move.
Shii Kazuo, Japanese Communist Party executive committee chair, said those pushing to revise the constitution want to turn Japan into a nation that “fights wars abroad.” He tied the effort to pressure from the United States, which is looking to keep a military foothold in Asia.
www.pww.org /article/articleview/6856/1/265   (664 words)

  
 E-Budo.com - Rightist arrested over killing of politician
On Oct. 12, 1960, a rightwing youth assassinated Inejiro Asanuma, chairman of the Japan Socialist Party, while he was giving a speech in Tokyo.
The Japan Socialist Party was later renamed the Social Democratic Party.
In January 1988, Ito showed up at Japanese Communist Party headquarters carrying a knife and was arrested on a charge of possessing a weapon.
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 rightist - OneLook Dictionary Search
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 AllRefer.com - Japan - Party History and Basic Principles | Japanese Information Resource
AllRefer.com - Japan - Party History and Basic Principles
Its roots can be traced to the groups established by Itagaki Taisuke and Okuma Shigenobu in the 1880s (see The Development of Representative Government, ch.
Its members held a variety of positions that could be broadly defined as being to the right of the opposition parties, yet more moderate than those of Japan's numerous rightist splinter groups (see Political Extremists, this ch.).
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 Socialist Action   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Youth for Socialist Action is the youth and student group of Socialist Action.
Adopted by Socialist Action’s National Committee during our April 1-3, 2005 National Committee plenum.
The general situation that socialists face in the
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