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| | Articles - Politics of Japan |
 | | 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. | | | It is a moderate social-democratic party of the left-wing. | | | Japan has a parliamentary government, which consists of three branches: the administration(executive) branch, the legislative branch and the judicial branch. |
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| | History of Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The U.S. Senate ratified the treaty in March 20, 1952, and under the terms of the treaty, Japan regained full sovereignty on April 28, 1952. | | | Today, the Liberal Democratic Party continues to dominate Japanese politics, though the opposition, lead by the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) seems to be gaining stronger influence in the Diet. | | | In 1615, Japan also sent embassies to the Americas and Europe, headed by the samurai Hasekura Tsunenaga, although these efforts were defeated by the deteriorating relationship between Japan and Catholic countries. |
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| | Washingtonpost.com: Japan's Political Parties |
| | The party, however, was one of the chief beneficiaries of the vote for the upper house in July 1998. | | | The Democratic Party now controls 47 seats in the upper house and 92 seats in the lower house. | | | Unable to stimulate the economy, Hashimoto resigned after his party's showing in the upper house elections of July 1998. |
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| | ipedia.com: Social Democratic Party (Japan) Article |
| | Fukushima Mizuho was elected as the new leader of the party on Novenber 15, 2003. | | | Social Democratic Party won 6 seats in the general elections of November 9, 2003. | | | Doi Takako was leader of SDP since 1996, but she resigned in 2003, feeling that the reason her party lost in the elections was because of her, as chairwoman. |
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| | Introduction to Japan's Political Parties |
| | 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. | | | The Japan New Party was formed in May 1992 by Morihiro Hosokawa, a former governor of Kumamoto Prefecture, who declared his intention to overturn the existing administration. |
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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. | | | The decision was contradictory in that the majority of the party members were opposed to the bill. | | | 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. |
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| | Japan Today |
| | Subsequently, by virtue of Socialist party support, the Democratic Party leader Hatoyama was elected. | | | The Democratic Party failed to win a majority in the diet in the election held in February 1955, but with Liberal support Hatoyama was returned to the primer ship. | | | Premier Yoshida, who was removed as head of the Liberal party a few days later, resigned the Premier-ship in early December after failing to muster a majority in the diet. |
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| | 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. | | | Doi, a university professor of constitutional law before entering politics, had a tough, straight-talking manner that appealed to voters tired of the evasiveness of other politicians. | | | In the House of Representatives election of 1958, the Japan Socialist Party gained 32.9 percent of the popular vote and 166 out of 467 seats. |
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| | Doi Takako Biography / Biography of Doi Takako Biography Biography |
| | Elected the chairperson of the Japan Socialist Party in 1986, Doi Takako (born 1928) led the party to larger victories at the polls and in a financial revival of the party, but was forced to resign in 1991. | | | She was elected the tenth chairperson of the Japan Socialist Party (JSP), and the first-ever woman leader of any Japanese political party, in September 1986, in the wake of the party's devastating defeat in the House of Representatives (lower house) and House of Councillors (upper house) elections held simultaneously only a few weeks before. | | | university · japan · foreign policy · party leaders · socialist party · pacifism · the bachelor · women legislators · cards · yen · kobe · chairperson · private women · jsp · pedicab · doshisha university · autograph · doi |
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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... | | | With a pantheon of famous leaders that included Mohandas K. Gandhi (known as the Mahatma), Subhas Chandra Bose, and Jawaharlal Nehru, the Congress party emerged during the period of India's independence movement to become the dominant political force in India throughout much of the 20th century. | | | The Democratic Party unites in 1988 to nominate Dukakis over Jackson. |
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| | Socialist state - encyclopedia article about Socialist state. |
| | A Communist state is a controversial term for a state governed by a single political party which declares its allegiance to the principles of Marxism-Leninism. | | | The constitution repealed restrictions on voting and added universal direct suffrage and the right to work to rights guaranteed by the previous constitution. | | | The first example was the USSR, which was proclaimed a "socialist state" in its 1936 Constitution The 1936 Soviet constitution, adopted on December 5, 1936, and also known as the "Stalin" constitution, redesigned the government of the Soviet Union. |
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| | FOREIGN OFFICE FILES FOR JAPAN AND THE FAR EAST, Series 3 |
| | Shipbuilding scandal brings down the government; Yoshida resigns and is replaced by Hatoyama Ichiro as Premier of Japan. | | | October General elections for the Lower House of the Diet sees increase in support for socialist parties, but a collapse of the Japan Communist Party’s vote. | | | April Elections, held with revised election law giving voting rights to women, won by a coalition party of Liberals and Progressives. |
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| | Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) - Open Encyclopedia |
| | Because of this electoral loss, former Secretary General Shinzo Abe turned in his resignation, but Party President Koizumi merely demoted him in rank, and he was replaced by Tsutomu Takebe. | | | In the 2004 House of Councillors elections, in the seats up for grabs, the LDP won 49 seats and the DPJ 50, though in the end, the LDP still had a total of 114. | | | Today, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is from this party. |
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| | FREE In-depth report - Minority Parties - Japan |
| | Regulations in the Diet Law and the rules of the two houses gave presiding House of Representatives officers the power to convene plenary sessions, fix agendas, and limit debates. | | | This is public domain information from the US State Department Country Guide. | | | Next: Japan - Social Democratic Party Of Japan |
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| | Graham's Other writings |
| | On Monday, Prime Minister Sosuke Uno announced his decision to resign to take responsibility for the disaster, but if the party isn't careful its troubles could just be beginning, political analysts say. | | | TOKYO, July 24, Reuter - The message from Japanese voters to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) was clear: adapt or die. | | | Many analysts are betting that voters who wanted to punish the LDP in this election will think twice before voting for the opposition next time. |
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| | Scottish Socialist Party |
| | This consultation document is the first stage in the second attempt to pass a bill in the Scottish Parliament to provide universal, free and nutritious school meals for Scotlands school children. | | | democratic party based on the principle of one person one vote. | | | pro-independence party which stands for the break-up of the British state and the creation of a free Scottish socialist republic. |
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| | AM Archive - Japan's opposition unusually quiet |
| | Most of those seats have gone to the new Democratic Party. | | | PETER MARTIN: Yes, there is a new largest opposition party in Japan, the Democratic Party is hard to distinguish from the Liberal Democratic Party from which it came. | | | PETER MARTIN: That's Yoshimichi Hironaka, the political editor of Japan's Yomiuri newspaper. |
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| | East Asia Bureau: Coalition Politics in Japan |
| | Current party strength in the Diet (as of July 1997) is as follows: | | | However, in general, the LDP and New Frontier Party are conservative; the Democratic Party, Sakigake and Sun Party are somewhat reformist; and the Social Democratic Party is left-of-center. | | | The LDP rules, however, with "support from outside the cabinet" from the Social Democratic Party (SDP, formerly the Japan Socialist Party) and the small Sakigake party. |
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| | The Japan Times Online |
| | Murayama's statement, which was also based on a Cabinet decision. | | | Now that his war apologies have been issued twice this year, it is all the more important that Mr. | | | Murayama chaired the the now-defunct Japan Socialist Party, which had been traditionally more critical of Japan's militarist history than the LDP, and headed a JSP-LDP coalition government. |
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| | AllRefer.com - Japan - Democratic Socialist Party Japanese Information Resource |
| | The Democratic Socialist Party won fifteen seats in the July 1993 lower house elections and joined the Hosokawa coalition government. | | | Japan - The Political System - Government and Politics | | | The party's chairman, Tsukamoto Saburo, was forced to resign in 1988 after it was revealed that he received 5,000 shares of stock from Recruit. |
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| | Democratic Socialist Party (Japan) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Democratic Socialist Party was established in 1960 by a breakaway group (led by Suehiro Nishio) of the Japan Socialist Party. | | | The Democratic Socialist Party (originally 民主社会党 Minshu Shakai-tō, later simply 民社党 Minsha-tō) was a former democratic socialist party that existed in Japan. | | | 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. |
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| | Contact or Join the Socialist Party |
| | You don't have to be a United Kingdom resident to fill out this form. | | | Socialist Party, PO Box 24697, London, E11 1YD, UK | | | The Socialist Party is part of the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI), which fights for socialism in more than 35 countries across every continent. |
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| | Japan Democratic Socialist Party |
| | More on publishing in English in Japan and on associations in Japan jpgsonline.com | | | Buy books, magazines, CD, online and other info products from Japan at imcbook.net. | | | We do not reply to email but we do appreciate your help and will attempt to update the online data. |
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| | Socialist Party Marxist Analysis |
| | Marxist analysis from the Socialist Party website, updated weekly with extracts from The Socialist newspaper | | | If your browser doesn't support them get one that does from a computer magazine for free. |
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| | Japan - Democratic Socialist Party |
| | Democratic Socialist Party[an error occurred while processing this directive]Country Studies Profile: Japan | | | Please return to the index and try again. |
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