Japan New Party

The New Japan Party (Japanese日本 新 党, Nihon Shinto abbreviated as日本 新, Shin Nihon or日新, Nisshin, English Japan New Party, JNP. ) Was a political party in Japan from 1992 to 1994 and one of the first parties to the boom of new parties (新党 ブーム, Shinto bumu ) in the early 90s when a series of political scandals, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP) shook.

On 7th May 1992 announced the then Governor of Kumamoto, Morihiro Hosokawa (LDP ), in the journal Bungei Shunju the formation of a Liberal - Social Association (自由 社会 连 合, Jiyu Shakai Rengo ) and at the same time wrote a public contest to determine the name of the new out party. This was decided in the same month in favor of " New Japan Party." The official founding of the party took place on May 22, Hosokawa became party chairman.

In the upper house elections on July 26, 1992, the Nisshin won with over three million votes ( 7.73% ) four seats and thus the greatest success for a party outside the established party system. With this respect success the greatest revolution of the Japanese political landscape began in 1955; because now other politicians felt encouraged to turn their backs on the scandal -ridden LDP. In June 1993, Tsutomu Hata and Ozawa Ichirō left with their faction, the LDP and formed the Renewal Party, causing the LDP lost its absolute majority and new elections were triggered.

In the general election on 18 July 1993, the Nisshin received from the state 35 of the 511 seats. Hosokawa was on August 9, Prime Minister in a coalition of all previous opposition parties except the Communists. The Government of Nisshin, Revival Party, Kōmeitō, Socialists, Democratic Socialists, New Party Sakigake and Social Democratic Federation, however, was politically too diverse to stably remain: After about eight months, on 15 April 1994, Hosokawa announced his resignation. The New Japan Party involved again at the next minority government by Tsutomu Hata without the Socialist Party and set a Minister. Already in June 1994, this government was history, the LDP returned by an alliance with socialists and Sakigake Party to the government.

The now again forced into the opposition parties regrouped in the sequence. In May 1994, the Socialist Federation of New Japan had joined the party. On 9 December 1994, it officially disbanded and formed a day later along with renewal Party, Democratic- Socialist Party and sections of Kōmeitō the New Progressive Party.

Other leading members of the New Japan Party

  • Kunitaro Takeda, Deputy Chairman ( Daihyō - Daiko ) at inception, Satsuki Eda later (which was originally the Social Democratic Federation ) alone vice-president ( fuku - Daihyō ), later along with Yuriko Koike
  • Satoshi Arai, Daihyō - kanji (corresponding here to the Secretary General )
  • Sakihito Ozawa, Chairman of the seisaku - iinkai ( "political committee " )
  • Hiroshi Yamada, Chairman of the rippō CHOSA iinkai ( " Legislativforschungsausschuss " )
  • Hiroshi Imai, Chairman of the seisaku - iinkai at resolution
  • Historical party (Japan)
New Party Nippon Chiyoda, Tokyo Political faction Japan Renewal Party Democratic Socialist Party (Japan) New Frontier Party (Japan)
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