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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Social Democratic Party
		The Czech Social Democratic Party (Czech: ÄŒeskÃ¡ strana sociÃ¡lnÄ› demokratickÃ¡ or ÄŒSSD) is the Social Democrat political party in the Czech Republic.
		The Social Democratic Party (Estonian: Sotsiaaldemokraatlik Erakond or SDE) is a social democratic party in Estonia, led by Ivari Padar.
		The Social Democratic Party of Lithuania (Lithuanian: Lietuvos socialdemokratÅ³ partija) is the ruling political party in Lithuania, formed from the merger of the Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania and the Lithuanian Social-Democratic Party.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Social-Democratic-Party (983 words)

	social-democracy - Anarchopedia
		Social democracy, also vaguely identified as centre leftism, moderate socialism, democratic socialism is a political ideology emerging in the late 19th and early 20th centuries from supporters of Marxism who believed that the transition to a socialist society could be achieved through democratic evolutionary rather than revolutionary means.
		Social democratic parties are among the largest parties in most countries in Europe, as well as in the majority of European-influenced parts of the world (with the notable exception of the United States).
		Social democrats usually retort by arguing that their policies are in fact enhancing individual rights, by raising the standard of living of the vast majority of the population and eliminating the threat of extreme poverty.
	eng.anarchopedia.org /index.php/social-democracy (2719 words)

	Democratic Socialist Party (Japan) - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		Democratic Socialist Party (originally Minshu Shakai-to (民主社会党), later simply Minsha-to(民社党)) was a former democratic socialist party that existed in Japan.
		Democratic Socialist Party was established in 1960 by a breakaway group (led by Suehiro Nishio) of Japan Socialist Party.
		In 1996, when the Social Democratic Party (Japan) formed and the Japan Socialist Party dissolved, the New Frontier Party dissolved and merged itself with the Democratic Party of Japan.
	www.music.us /education/D/Democratic-Socialist-Party-(Japan).htm (421 words)

	Social Democratic Party (Japan) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The party became the largest political party in the general election of 1947, and a government was formed by Katayama Tetsu, forming a coalition with the Democratic Party of Japan, Occupation and another minor party.
		The coalition government of Morihiro Hosokawa was formed by anti-LDP liberals (the Japan Renewal Party and the Japan New Party, the Japanese Communist Party the Komeito (Former), the Democratic Socialist Party, the New Frontier Party, the New Party Sakigake, and the JSP).
		Fukushima Mizuho was elected as the new leader of the party on November 15, 2003.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_(Japan) (1403 words)

	Japan - MSN Encarta
		Japan’s most senior career judges tend to share markedly conservative attitudes toward the role of the courts and the foundations of public trust.
		The LDP was created in 1955 from the union of the Liberal Party and the Democratic Party, two conservative parties that emerged in the aftermath of the war.
		However, by mid-1993 a number of leading politicians and their supporters had withdrawn from the party, causing the LDP to lose its majority in the lower house on the eve of national elections.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761566679_13/Japan.html (1295 words)

	Japanese Communist Party Summary
		The Japanese Communist Party or Japan Communist Party (JCP) (in Japanese 日本共産党, Nihon Kyōsan-tō) is a political party in Japan.
		The party was legalised during the U.S. occupation of Japan in 1945, and since then has been a legal political party able to contest elections.
		The youth wing of JCP is the Democratic Youth League of Japan.
	www.bookrags.com /Japanese_Communist_Party (1321 words)

	Japan (11/06)
		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.
		Manchukuo was dissolved, and Manchuria was returned to China; Japan renounced all claims to Formosa; Korea was occupied and divided by the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.; southern Sakhalin and the Kuriles were occupied by the U.S.S.R.; and the U.S. became the sole administering authority of the Ryukyu, Bonin, and Volcano Islands.
		Japan's economic engagement with its neighbors is increasing, as evidenced by the conclusion of an EPA with Singapore and the Philippines, and its ongoing negotiations for EPAs with Thailand and Malaysia.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/4142.htm (5052 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)

	II Journal: Japan Addresses its War Responsibility
		Originally introduced as a relatively strong apology for Japan's wartime transgressions by the Social Democratic Party to which Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama belongs, the resolution was drastically watered down by the prime minister's conservative coalition partners, most notably the Liberal Democratic Party that governed Japan from 1955 to 1993.
		All the drafts of the Liberal Democratic Party, the Social Democratic Party of Japan and Sakigake (Harbinger) had in common the attempt to rationalize the war of aggression as a "confrontation between the powers." The word "powers" is not used in the agreed draft.
		Japan's war of aggression cannot be described as "colonial rule and acts of aggression," nor can it be rationalized as part of the general trend at the time.
	www.umich.edu /~iinet/journal/vol3no1/jpnwar.html (5805 words)

	Japan
		The distance of Japan’s land boundary is zero km sq., and its coastline is 29,751 km sq.
		Japan is bounded on the north by the Sea of Okhotsk, and on the east by the Pacific Ocean, and on the south by the Pacific Ocean and the East China Sea, and on the west by the Korean Peninsula and the Sea of Japan.
		The geographic coordinates of Japan are 36 00 North and 138 00 East.
	www.fruithome.com /teams/modelun/pe02japn.html (2770 words)

	Japan
		Asahara is accused of seventeen counts of murder and felonies relating to the orchestration of the sarin gas attacks on the Tokyo subway in March 1995.
		Japan's economy continued to lag behind the USA in 1996, continuing a modest growth rate of approximately 2.5 per cent of real gross domestic product, as in fiscal year 1995.
		Antisemitism in Japan is based largely on ignorance of Jews and Judaism and a general xenophobic attitude amongst the populace, but does not pose a significant threat to the Jewish community.
	www.axt.org.uk /antisem/archive/archive1/japan/japan.htm (1119 words)

	JPRI Working Paper No. 79
		Japan, at the end of World War II, was forbidden by its victorious occupiers both to fly its flag, the Hinomaru (meaning literally "round sun") and to use its national anthem Kimigayo ("his majestic reign").
		Communist Party Chairman Fuwa said that it was necessary to create a new national flag and anthem that were suitable to the present (democratic and peace-loving) Japan, while the party's General-Secretary Shii stated that it was wrong to initiate the legislation without having discussions with the general public.
		Democratic Party President Kan stated that the result (its split vote) correctly reflected the wide range of opinion among the Japanese on this issue and that it would not jeopardize the party's solidarity.
	www.jpri.org /publications/workingpapers/wp79.html (4916 words)

	Democratic Party of Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		Despite this electoral setback, the Democratic Party remains the primary rival of the ruling Liberal Democrats and their coalition partner New Komeito, although it is now significantly weakened.
		Japan Socialist Party Group: the most left-leaning faction, created by more moderate members of the former Japan Socialist Party who felt the Social Democratic Party was too radical.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Democratic_Party_of_Japan (1014 words)

	Modern Japan - Famous Japanese - Doi Takako
		During her time as leader, she transformed the party and made it into a relevant political force, though since the turn of the century it has greatly declined and is now a minor party.
		On the basis of her popular support, she was chosen as party chairwoman in 1986 - the first woman ever to lead a major political organization in Japan.
		As leader she moved the party away from its extremist Marxist-Leninist ideology to a more centrist position and also exposed many financial and sex scandals in the ruling LDP.
	www.japan-zone.com /modern/doi_takako.shtml (587 words)

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		Party officials were also concerned that the United States might have misconstrued the expression to mean that the party was requesting the immediate and complete withdrawal of U.S. forces.
		Yukio Hatoyama criticized the SDPJ, calling it the “un-constructive ruling party,” as opposed to the DPJ, the “constructive opposition party.” In the end, the bill was passed by an overwhelming majority, including opposition parties such as the NFP and the DPJ.
		As a result, the party let itself be swung between the centrifugal forces to move away from the ruling parties and centripetal forces to move closer to the cabinet.
	mcel.pacificu.edu /aspac/papers/scholars/itoh/itoh2/Itoh.DOC (6393 words)

	Corruption through political contributions in Japan, Report on recent bribery scandals,1996-2000, Verena Blechinger
		Electoral victory in Japan was and still is decided not so much by the quality of the political program of the competing candidates, but by personal contacts to their key supporters.
		To increase the importance of parties within the political system, it was deemed necessary to destroy politicians' sources of financial independence and to increase their dependence on party headquarters for financial assistance.
		Since donations to party chapters, on the local as on the national level, have no limit attached, this initiative has to be seen as a move to keep the flow of donations intact.
	www.transparency.org /working_papers/country/japan_paper.html (5237 words)

	Canada Election 2004 Voter Guide: Political Parties - New Democratic Party (NDP)
		Until a few days into the election, the party also had an "Issues" page that set's out the party's (much more frankly-worded) stance on issues ranging from taxation to gays and lesbians (some text remains, but the page is incomplete or in the process of being removed as of May 25, 2004).
		The New Democratic Party holds firm to the belief that the dignity and freedom of the individual is a basic right that must be maintained and extended; and
		The New Democratic Party is proud to be associated with the democratic socialist parties of the world and to share the struggle for peace, international co-operation and the abolition of poverty."
	www.mondopolitico.com /elections/canada2004/parties/ndp.htm (521 words)

	People's Republic of China
		In the first year of Communist administration, moderate social and economic policies were implemented with skill and effectiveness.
		At first the party's repeated invitation to air constructive views freely and openly was met with caution.
		By mid-1957, however, the movement unexpectedly mounted, bringing denunciation and criticism against the party in general and the excesses of its cadres in particular.
	www-chaos.umd.edu /history/prc.html (1329 words)

	Under Uncle Sam’s thumb
		In Japan’s new electoral politics, the U.S. backed a section of the old guard led by Yoshida Shigeru, who, after initially resisting many reforms, collaborated with the U.S. in controlling the country as standing prime minister for all but one year of the occupation.
		Japan would serve as the main base for Washington’s wars to maintain its influence in Asia and the Pacific--in Korea, the Philippines, Vietnam and elsewhere.
		Unlike Japan, which the U.S. controlled outright, Germany was partitioned into eastern and western halves by the U.S., Britain and France on one side, and Russia on the other.
	www.socialistworker.org /2003-1/450/450_06_USHistory.shtml (2017 words)

	Japan - Social Democratic Party of Japan
		In the double election of July 1986 for both Diet houses, the party suffered a rout by the LDP under Nakasone: its seats in the lower house fell from 112 to an all-time low of eighty-five and its share of the vote from 19.5 percent to 17.2 percent.
		In domestic policy, the party demanded the continued protection of agriculture and small business in the face of foreign pressure, abolition of the consumer tax, and an end to the construction and use of nuclear power reactors.
		Because of the party's self-definition as a class-based party and its symbiotic relationship with Sohyo, the public-sector union confederation, few efforts were made to attract nonunion constituencies.
	countrystudies.us /japan/125.htm (749 words)

	Power Shuffles and Policy Processes by Otake Hideo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		When the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lost its monopoly on power, which it had held for 38 years, as a result of the House of Representatives election of 1993, Japanese politics entered the coalition era.
		Typical of the style followed in the case study chapters, the discussion of LTCI gives background on the issues concerned, examines the relevant political events at each stage of the policy process--agenda-setting, preparation of a draft bill, compromises made, and final outcome--and analyzes how successful the coalition governments were in changing long-established patterns of policymaking.
		Other chapters present the backdrop to the political events of the 1990s by examining the impact of voter preference on party realignment and policy conflict from the 1970s to the present, and discuss structural reform by the SDPJ and the changes it made in policy when its chairman was named prime minister in 1994.
	www.brookings.edu /press/books/clientpr/jcie/power_shuffles.htm (335 words)

	ABOUT JAPAN'S PEACE CONSTITUTION
		The Japanese government is officially noncommittal to U.S. and U.N. pressure about sending Japan Defense Forces overseas so far, no doubt due in part to the extremely well-organized opposition they face from the broad coalition of organizations throughout Japan which are campaigning to retain the Peace Constitution.
		The position of Gensuikyo, Japan Peace Committee, and "almost all politically aware people in Japan" is that the Japan Defense Forces are unconstitutional and should be disbanded, and that U.S. bases are not needed.
		This position was shared by the Social Democratic Party of Japan ("SDP") until its Chairman, Murayama, was nominated Prime Minister by the Diet to lead the present coalition government with the conservative Liberal Democratic Party.
	www.prop1.org /prop1/jconst.htm (706 words)

	Sayuri Daimon, SDP, now merely an also-ran, has no one to blame but itself
		In addition to popular lawmaker Kiyomi Tsujimoto's resignation from both the party and the Diet in March over alleged misuse of her secretaries' government-paid salaries, politicians Masakazu Yamamoto, Yoko Tajima and Kinuko Ofuchi fled after becoming disgruntled with the way the SDP was managed.
		The main gripe for Tajima was the party's long accommodating stance toward North Korea, which in September finally admitted it kidnapped several Japanese in past decades, confirming long-held suspicions in Japan that were routinely dismissed by the SDP.
		Then recently there was a plan hatched by now-departing Democratic Party of Japan leader Yukio Hatoyama to form an opposition bloc uniting the DPJ, the Liberal Party and the SDP—an idea that was never formally conveyed to SDP leader Takako Doi.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/55a/465.html (1057 words)

	Introduction to Japan's Political Parties: 1874-1998
		In a major turnaround the LDP won a landslide victory in the simultaneous elections for the upper and lower houses held in July 1986;the party took 300 seats in the House of Representatives and 72 of the 126 seats up for election in the House of Councillors.
		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.
		The other three parties expected to emerge include one made up of lawmakers loyal to Shinshinto head Ichiro Ozawa, one composed of supporters of his rival, Michihiko Kano, and a party to be set up by Upper House members who belonged to the former Komeito.
	www.kanzaki.com /jinfo/PoliticalParties.html (2929 words)

	Social Democratic Party of Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		The Social Democratic Party (SDP) is a political party of Japan.
		The Social Democratic Party won 6 seats at the general election of November 9, 2003.
		Fukushima Mizuho was elected as the new leader of the party on Novenber 15, 2003.
	www.japan-101.com /government/social_democratic_party.htm (151 words)

	CNN.com - World News: Election Watch
		Assembly: Japan has a bicameral Diet (Kokkai) consisting of the House of Councilors (Sangi-in) with 242 seats and the House of Representatives (Shugi-in) with 480 seats.
		In the House of Representatives (Shugi-in), 300 members are elected in single-seat constituencies and 180 members by proportional representation in 11 regional blocs; all serve four-year terms.
		The same reform package had been passed earlier only with a slim margin in the House of Representatives, as 37 members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party joined the opposition to vote against the proposed legislation.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/election.watch/asiapcf/japan6.html (238 words)

	The CIA in Japan
		After all, the Social Democratic Party of Japan (SDPJ), the erstwhile enemy of the CIA’s partners in the Liberal Democratic Party, has reversed its stand on all the important issues.
		After all, it is true that Murayama himself is a member of the erstwhile Socialist Party, but most of the key cabinet posts are held by LDP members.
		The typical claim of these commentators is that Japan’s intelligence capabilities are in a crippled state, and that (though this is generally unstated) when relations with the U.S. deteriorate, Japan will be left vulnerable.
	www.zmag.org /japanwatch/13-CIA.html (1353 words)

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