Happiness Realization Party

The Kōfuku - jitsugen -tō (Japanese幸福 実 现 党, "Happiness Realization Party ."; Engl The Happiness Realization Party ) is a political party in Japan. It was founded before the general election in 2009, that operates in Germany religious community Kōfuku no Kagaku ( Happy Science ). She could win any seats, but was temporarily in 2010, represented by an accreted deputies in Sangiin, the House of Lords.

In the 2009 election campaign, the party fell by the demand for abolition of VAT and her warning about the threat of a nuclear- armed North Korea. She calls for a revision of Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution, wants to increase the population of Japan to 300 million, overcome the "colonial mentality " of Japan and open the country for immigrants and abolish in addition to VAT, the inheritance and gift taxes. She also wants to introduce a presidential system of government. The founding chairman of the party was jikido Aeba. In June, before the election he was replaced by Kyoko Ōkawa, wife of Ōkawa Ryuho, founder and president of Kōfuku no Kagaku. In the 2009 election the party failed to win a mandate. After three more party chairman since April 2010 Etsuo Ishikawa leads the Presidency, a former employee of Nomura shoken and since 1994 a member of Kōfuku no Kagaku.

In May 2010, the former DPJ, Kaikaku club and LDP MPs Yasuhiro Ōe joined the Kōfuku - jitsugen -tō. In the upper house election in 2010 the party questioned especially in the more urban prefectures with several mandates to candidates. Ōe occurred in December 2010, again from the party.