The Japan New Party (日本新党, Nihon Shintō) was a Japanese political party that existed briefly from 1992 to 1994.[8]
Japan New Party 日本新党 Nihon Shintō | |
|---|---|
| Founder | Morihiro Hosokawa |
| Founded | 22 May 1992 |
| Dissolved | 9 December 1994 |
| Split from | Liberal Democratic Party |
| Merged into | New Frontier Party |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Centre[5] to centre-right[6][7] |
| Colors | Green |
The party, considered liberal, was founded by Morihiro Hosokawa, a former Diet member and Kumamoto Prefecture governor, who left the Liberal Democratic Party to protest corruption scandals. In 1992, the party elected four members to the House of Councillors, including Hosokawa. Although this was a disappointing result for them, in 1993 they were able to capitalize on voter dissatisfaction with the LDP, electing a total of 35 members (including 3 who joined after the election). Hosokawa became Prime Minister leading a broad coalition, but was soon forced to resign.
The party defended the political reformism,[9][10] rights of consumers[10] and supported decentralization.[10]
By 1994, the Japan New Party dissolved, its members flowing into the New Frontier Party (新進党).
Several Diet members who've become prominent in other parties were first elected for the Japan New Party, including Yoshihiko Noda, Seiji Maehara, Yukio Edano, Toshimitsu Motegi and Yuriko Koike.
List of leaders of JNP
edit| No. | Name (Birth–death) |
Portrait | Constituency / title | Term of office | Prime Minister (term) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | ||||||
| Split from: Liberal Democratic Party | |||||||
| 1 | Morihiro Hosokawa (b. 1938) |
Rep for Kumamoto 1st |
22 May 1992 | 9 December 1994 | Miyazawa 1991–93 | ||
| himself 1993–94 | |||||||
| Hata 1994 | |||||||
| Murayama 1994–96 | |||||||
| Successor party: New Frontier Party | |||||||
Election results
editHouse of Representatives
edit| Election | Leader | Votes | % | Seats | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Morihiro Hosokawa | 5,053,981 | 8.05 | 35 / 511
|
5th | Governing coalition |
House of Councillors
edit| Election | Leader | Constituency | Party list | Seats | Position | Status | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | |||||
| 1992 | Morihiro Hosokawa | — | 3,617,247 | 7.97 | 4 / 126
|
4 / 252
|
4th | Opposition | ||
See also
edit- Liberalism in Japan
- Conservative mainstream (in Japanese)
- Yukio Edano, is a Japanese left-liberal politician who claims to be a "Conservative mainstream" because his early political career was in the centre-right liberal Japan New Party.
References
edit- ^ Austrian Foreign Policy Yearbook. Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs. 1993. p. 98.
The new reform parties were successful, but the socialists lost almost half of their seats . a At the beginning of August the leader of the liberal Japan New Party, Morihiro Hosokawa, formed a new broadly - based coalition government ...
- ^ "Yuriko Koike, a political outsider taking on Japan's grey elite". Financial Times. 30 September 2017. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
Those years gave her a high public profile and formidable communication skills, which she brought to politics in 1992 as a candidate for the liberal Japan New party, an LDP breakaway that prefigures her Party of Hope.
- ^ Mark R. Mullins; Koichi Nakano, eds. (1993). Disasters and Social Crisis in Contemporary Japan: Political, Religious, and Sociocultural Responses. Springer. p. 98. ISBN 9781137521323.
Among politicians, in 2014, Koizumi Junichiro (former Prime Minister 2001–2006; rightwing populist; LDP) together with Hosokawa Morihiro (former Prime Minister 1992–1994; liberal; Japan New Party) created an antinuclear forum, ...
- ^ Murakami, Hiroshi [in Japanese] (2009). "The changing party system in Japan 1993-2007: More competition and limited convergence" (PDF). Ritsumeikan Law Review. 26. Ritsumeikan University: 30. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
- ^ Freedom in the World: The Annual Survey of Political Rights and Civil Liberties, 1992-1993. University Press of America. 1994. p. 332. ISBN 9780932088819.
- ^ J. Dennis Derbyshire (2016). Encyclopedia of World Political Systems. Vol. 1. Routledge. p. 415. ISBN 9781317471554. OCLC 948171409. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
A year earlier, in 1992, another center-right reform party, the Japan New Party (JNP), was set up by Morihito Hosokawa, a former LDP governor.
- ^ The Corruption Notebooks: 25 Investigative Journalists Report on Abuses of Power in Their Home Country. Public Integrity Books. 2004. p. 151.
August 1993 Morihiro Hosokawa, former LDP member and head of the Ministry of Finance, is elected prime minister by a new coalition government as the candidate of the center-right Japan New Party ( JNP - Nihonshinto ).
- ^ Schoppa, Leonard J. (2011). "Path Dependence in the Evolution of Japan's Party System since 1993". In Schoppa, Leonard J. (ed.). The Evolution of Japan's Party System: Politics and Policy in an Era of Institutional Change. The University of Toronto Press. pp. 14–42. ISBN 9781442611672.
- ^ "Hosokawa Morihiro, prime minister of Japan". britannica.com. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
- ^ a b c Seiji Keizai Kyoiku Kenkyukai, ed. (2019). Seiji keizai yogoshu [Political and economics glossary] (in Japanese) (2 ed.). Yamakawa Shuppansha. p. 79. ISBN 978-4-634-05113-3.