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In Japan, any organization that supports a candidate needs to register itself as a political party.Each of these parties have some local or national influence. [1] This article lists political parties in Japan with representation in the National Diet, either in the House of Representatives (lower house) or in the House of Councillors (upper house).
Several political parties exist in Japan. However, the politics of Japan have primarily been dominated by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) since 1955, with the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) playing an important role as the opposition several times. The DPJ was the ruling party from 2009 to 2012 with the LDP as the opposition.
Defunct political parties in Japan (1 C, 124 P) F. Political party factions in Japan (6 P) L. Left-wing parties in Japan (2 C, 3 P) Liberal parties in Japan (2 C, 19 ...
Candidates from parties with legal political party-list, which requires either ≥5 Diet members or ≥1 Diet member and ≥2% of the nationwide vote in one tier of a recent national election, are allowed to stand in a constituency and be present on the party list. If they lose their constituency vote, they may still be elected in the ...
Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party is facing its biggest scandal in decades, involving millions of dollars in undocumented political funds. Japan’s ruling party hit by scandal over ...
MIC, e-Gov legal database: 公職選挙法 (kōshoku senkyo hō), Law No. 100 of April 25, 1950 (the three appended tables list the area/number of seats for all electoral districts to both Houses of the National Diet); MOJ, Japanese Law Translation Database: Public Offices Election Act ([by definition unofficial] translation to English, if ...
Japanese voters delivered a stinging rebuke to the country’s longtime ruling party in elections Sunday, plunging the world’s fourth largest economy into a rare period of political uncertainty ...
On 4 October the regional Tokyo-based political party Tomin First no Kai announced that it had created a new national party called First no Kai. [36] The party said that it planned to enter candidates for single-seat constituencies in Tokyo, and said that while current Governor of Tokyo Yuriko Koike will not be running, she will cooperate with ...