New Renaissance Party
The Shinto Kaikaku (Japanese新 党 改革, " New Party reform ."; Engl New Renaissance Party ) is a conservative political party in Japan, in April 2010, which was founded in 2008 Kaikaku Club (改革 クラブ, Kaikaku Kurabu; German " Reform Club "; emerged engl Japan Renaissance Party ). . Party leader and the only remaining representative in the national parliament since July 2013 Hiroyuki Arai.
Kaikaku Club
The former Democratic Upper House MPs Hideo Watanabe had the Kaikaku Club founded in 2008 together with two other ex- Democrats and two independent MPs.
With last five members in both houses of Parliament, four in the House of Lords and one in the lower house, the Kaikaku Club fulfilled, although the formal requirements for recognition as a party; but after the general election in 2009 he had only four members in the upper house, which is why he was considered only as a " political group " within the meaning of the law on party funding. He trained in both houses since 2009 a common fraction with the opposition Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP).
The Kaikaku Club was founded in 2008 during the " twisted parliament" ( Nejire Kokkai ), while negotiations on a grand coalition had failed and the different majorities delayed in the lower and upper house legislative procedure and staff nominations blocked. The party was avowedly dissolve the blockage and properly oriented to cooperate with the LDP -led government.
In the general election in 2009 was the only constituency candidate of Kaikaku Club, the deputy Shingo Nishimura, in the 17th constituency Osaka only around 36,000 votes and came in third. Also, the proportional representation list Kinki with Nishimura as the only candidate received only 58,000 votes (0.52 % and 0.08 % nationally ), which is why the Kaikaku Club held just the deputies in the upper house, the one with the LDP on the formation common fraction agreed. In October 2009, the member of Parliament, Kishiro Nakamura joined the party. In January 2010 came Toshio Yamauchi (upper house, Kagawa ) and at Shinpei Matsushita ( House of Lords, Miyazaki ) from.
Shinto Kaikaku
In April 2010, leaving the former Minister of Social Affairs Yōichi Masuzoe the LDP and expressed the intention to form a new party. Together with three members of the Kaikaku club and also leaked from the LDP deputies Tetsuro Yano and Masakatsu Koike founded Masuzoe the Shinto Kaikaku. Five of the six members - all from the upper house - should be at the upper house election in July 2010 for re-election.
The other two former members of the Club Kaikaku left the party and kept the fraction communion with the LDP upright. The LDP factions in both chambers led for a short time still Kaikaku Club as an additive in their name.