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| | Social Democratic Party (Japan) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Fukushima Mizuho was elected as the new leader of the party on November 15, 2003. | | | The Social Democratic Party won only 6 seats in the general elections of November 9, 2003, as compared with 18 seats in the previous elections of 2000. | | | 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. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_(Japan)
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| | Democratic Party of Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The party grew and won a significant number of seats in the 2000 and 2001 Diet elections. | | | Following a pension scandal, Naoto Kan resigned, and was replaced with a moderate liberal—Katsuya Okada. | | | This move immediately gave the DPJ eight more seats in the House of Councillors. |
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| | Japan (08/05) |
| | 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. | | | Japan is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary government. | | | Japan maintains an embassy in the United States at 2520 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008 (tel: 202-238-6700; fax: 202-328-2187). |
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http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/4142.htm
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| | Although he became a prime minister under conservative parties in Japan (the JDP and later the LDP from 1954 to 1956) due to his anti-communism, he was a liberal at heart. | | | Hypothesis Two: The raison d’être of the DPJ as the second (and later the largest) opposition party mandated the party to diverge from the Hashimoto coalition cabinet. | | | The decision was contradictory in that the majority of the party members were opposed to the bill. |
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http://mcel.pacificu.edu/aspac/papers/scholars/itoh/itoh2.htm
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| | Introduction to Japan's Political Parties: 1874-1998 |
| | 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. | | | In 1898 a cabinet was formed by the leader of a party for the first time, inaugurating the system of party cabinets. | | | 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. |
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| | Japan - THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY |
| | While the party maintained a parliamentary majority, the party president was the prime minister. | | | 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 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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http://countrystudies.us/japan/122.htm
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| | Asia Times |
| | Ichiro Hatoyama formed the Japan Democratic Party and became prime minister (the first of three terms that he served). | | | The current DJP is the most successful opposition party in Japan, with 129 members elected in either the lower or upper houses of the Diet (parliament). | | | Hatoyama is 55 years old, as is the secretary general of the party Naoto Kan, who also split from the LDP. |
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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Japan/DH01Dh01.html
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| | 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. | | | Keep up with the latest news and gossip from Japan. |
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| | The Democratic Party of Japan |
| | Party President Seiji Maehara tendered his resignation, taking the responsibility for the loss of public confidence in the DPJ over the "email issue". | | | On March 24, DPJ President Seiji Maehara met with an India-Japan Forum Parliamentarians delegation consisting of Indian politicians from both the ruling and opposition parties. | | | On March 30, two senior Korean politicians from the ruling Uri Party visited DPJ party headquarters to meet with the Director-General of the International Department, Yoshinori Suematsu. |
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| | Social Democratic Party of Japan -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | The Socialist Party of Japan, formed in 1901, endured varying periods of repression and harassment until 1946, when it won more than 90 seats in the Diet to become Japan's third-strongest party, and a year later its leader, Katayama Tetsu, became... | | | The Democratic Party unites in 1988 to nominate Dukakis over Jackson. | | | International diplomats began referring to the nation as Congo-Kinshasa, using the name of its capital to distinguish it from the neighboring nation known as the... |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9043359
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| | Democratic Party of Japan members pick Ozawa as leader - MSN-Mainichi Daily News |
| | His predecessor Maehara, 43, was elected leader of the party last September and replaced Katsuya Okada, who resigned to assume responsibility for the party's crushing defeat in the Sept. 11 House of Representatives election. | | | Senior politician Ichiro Ozawa has been elected leader of the largest opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) after a fake e-mail scandal forced former head Seiji Maehara to resign. | | | The post of party secretary-general has now become the focal point of Ozawa's appointment of top officials. |
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http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20060407p2a00m0na019000c.html
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| | BBC NEWS Asia-Pacific Profile: Naoto Kan |
| | Before his resignation, Mr Kan presented the DPJ as the only party that could truly reform Japan's economy and administration. | | | But now his spell as health minister has proved his downfall, after he admitted that he failed to make payments into the state pension scheme for 10 months while he was in the job. | | | The scandal provoked a public outcry, and his handling of it propelled him to the opinion polls' favourite for Japan's next prime minister, ahead of current leader Junichiro Koizumi. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3249613.stm
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| | AllRefer.com - Japan - Economic Achievements and the Liberal Democratic Party Japanese Information Resource |
| | In November 1984, Nakasone was chosen for a second term as LDP president. | | | Despite being found guilty of bribery in 1983, Tanaka in the early to mid-1980s remained a power behind the scenes through his control of the party's informal apparatus, and he continued as an influential adviser to the more internationally minded Nakasone. | | | Reischauer's Japan: The Story of a Nation, Edwin O. |
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| | Koizumi Win in Japan Hurts 2-Party System |
| | That success came at the painful expense of the opposition Democratic Party of Japan, which saw its standing plummet from 175 seats to 113. | | | When the opposition Democrats made strong gains in parliamentary elections in 2003 and 2004, Japan looked on the verge of something new: a competitive two-party system. | | | "The checks and balances that a democracy needs were provided by the (LDP) party itself," Gerald Curtis, a Japanese politics expert at Columbia University, told reporters in Tokyo on Monday. |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=n/a/2005/09/12/international/i113751D84.DTL
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| | [10 Sep 1997]: PRESS CONFERENCE BY DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF JAPAN |
| | Hatoyama was asked for his assessment of Japan's participation as a non-permanent member of the Council, and whether Japan had the support of neighbouring countries in its bid to become a permanent member. | | | In response to a question on whether the Democratic Party wanted a more senior role for Mr. | | | The Democratic Party would attempt to change that policy. |
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http://www.un.org/News/briefings/docs/1997/19970910.japan.brf.html
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| | BBC NEWS Asia-Pacific Japan party to pull Iraq troops |
| | Correspondents say the election could be close, in part because the LDP has reportedly barred 37 of its lower house members from standing for the party in the election, because they voted against Mr Koizumi's landmark postal reform bill. | | | Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi called a snap election for 11 September after he lost a key reform vote. | | | The DPJ election platform, announced on Tuesday, said the party would cut government spending by 10 trillion yen ($91.5bn). |
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| | Ozawa to head Democratic Party of Japan - Boston.com |
| | Ozawa to head Democratic Party of Japan - Boston.com | | | "I feel great responsibility when I consider the tasks ahead -- the renewal of our party and our road to power," Ozawa said after the vote, to cheers from assembled Democratic loyalists. | | | But the Democrats were trounced in Sept. 11 elections, with the ruling party scoring a two-thirds majority with its coalition partner. |
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http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2006/04/07/ozawa_to_head_democratic_party_of_japan?mode=PF
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| | Head of Democratic Party of Japan Resigns - Forbes.com |
| | Head of Democratic Party of Japan Resigns - Forbes.com | | | Nagata had backed up his allegations with a purported e-mail from Livedoor president Takafumi Horie ordering a company official to pay Takebe's son. | | | The leader of Japan's biggest opposition party resigned Friday over the scandal surrounding an e-mail falsely accusing a ruling party leader's son of financial links with disgraced Internet company Livedoor, news reports said. |
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http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2006/03/31/ap2636173.html
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| | Bloomberg.com: Japan |
| | Ozawa, New Head of Democratic Party of Japan, Names Kan Deputy, Kyodo Says Ichiro Ozawa, newly elected head of the Democratic Party of Japan, the country's main opposition political party, will name Naoto Kan his deputy, Kyodo News said, citing Ozawa. | | | Japan's Five-Year Notes Slide; Yield Rises to Highest Since February 2000 Japan's five-year government notes fell for a fourth week, pushing yields to a record high, on concern the Bank of Japan will raise interest rates from zero percent as early as July. | | | Dollar Advances a Second Day Against Euro Before March's U.S. Jobs Report The dollar gained against the euro for a second day before a U.S. government report that may show sustained job growth, bolstering speculation interest rates will rise more quickly than in Europe. |
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| | Democratic Liberal Party of Japan - Maison de Stuff |
| | The current ruling party in Japan is the Liberal Democratic Party. | | | REG: We're the Democratic Liberal Party of Japan! | | | FRANCIS: And the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan. |
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