Greens Japan
The Midori no Tō ( .緑の党jap, " Green Party ", engl greens Japan) is a green political party in Japan - in the legal sense, it is a "political union " ( seiji dantai ), no party because they do not is represented in the national parliament or competed in national elections.
The Midori no Tō was formed in July 2012 as the successor of Midori no Mirai and has individual members in Prefecture parliaments and at the local level. A former co-chair of Midori no Mirai, Kazumi Inamura, was elected in 2010 to the Mayor of the independent city Amagasaki Hyōgo prefecture.
The party chairmanship of Midori no Tō share Hitoshi Nakayama, Councillor in Niigata ( Niigata Prefecture ), Nao Suguro, Councillor in Suginami ( Tokyo Prefecture ), Masaru Kosaka and Uiko Hasegawa.
History
The Midori no Mirai (みどりの未来; German "Green Future", . Engl greens Japan) was founded on November 22, 2008 by the merger of Midori no Table (みどり の テーブル, midori no tēburu, dt "green table " engl. greens Japan ) and Niji to Midori (虹 と 緑, dt "Rainbow and green ," engl. Rainbow and Greens ) and is a member of the Global Greens.
Precursor of the "Green Table" was Midori no Kaigi (みどり の 会議, German "Green Conference", engl. Greens Japan ), which was represented by Atsuo Nakamura and 2004 in the Upper House. It was established in 2002 as a successor to the Sakigake, a more conservative, ecologically oriented LDP secession. Niji to Midori was established in 1998 merger of ecologically oriented prefecture and local leaders, the part to the anti-globalization, communist influenced is Jichi Rentai Ecology o mezasu Seiji Group Sosei (自治·连 帯·エコロジー を めざす 政治 グループ·蒼生, dt about " political movement for self-management, solidarity and ecology, the masses ' ", publisher of Glocal ) leaning.
Start-up 2012
To prepare for a planned foray into national politics in the expected in autumn 2012, at the latest due 2013 general election and the upper house election in the summer of 2013, the Midori no Mirai disbanded on 28 July 2012 and founded the Midori no Tō, with around 1,000 party members were taken. For the 2013 election the Sangiin Midori no Tō wants to set ten candidates in November 2012, to be determined half in primaries by the members.
Core objectives of the party are the replacement of nuclear energy with renewable energy and the reduction of CO2 emissions, along with a ban on exports of nuclear technologies and the acceptance of membership negotiations in the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership.
The party wants to strengthen its cooperation with community groups and non-governmental organizations and international green parties, international guests at the founding congress of the deputies were Bärbel Höhn from Germany, Senator Scott Ludlam from Australia and Sinan Mavivo from the Republic of China.
For the general election in December 2012, Midori no Tō presented in view of the high costs already for the candidate nomination (see Shūgiin # Composition and Election ) no candidate of their own, but was a choice recommendation in individual constituencies from.