New Socialist Party (Japan)

The New Socialist Party (Japanese新 社会 党, Shinshakaitō, Eng. New Socialist Party ) is a small political party in Japan, in the conversion of the Socialist Party of Japan ( SPJ ) in the Social Democratic Party (SDP ) was established in 1996 as a left split. At its founding, two deputies in the House of Representatives ( lower house) and three boards in the House ( House of Lords) involved. Since the elections of 1996 and 1998, she is no longer represented in the national parliament, but provides MPs in some Prefecture parliaments and at the local level as well as nationally a mayor ( in the village Chosei in Chiba Prefecture ).

The Socialist Party had weakened some of their radical positions already in the 1980s. In the anti -LDP coalition under Morihiro Hosokawa and the grand coalition with the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP) in the Cabinet from 1993 Murayama she was forced to compromise and lost members and supporters of other parties. Many areas, such as security policy - a commitment to self-defense forces and security treaty - the introduction of Einmandatswahlkreise in the House, which smaller parties makes it virtually impossible direct mandates to gain, and energy policy alienated especially the followers of the traditional opposition line of the left wing of the SPJ. 1 January 1996 Osamu Yatabe left with four supporters in parliament, the party and founded the New Socialist Party, initially under the name Shinshakaitō - Heiwa Rengo (新 社会 党·平和 连 合, "New Socialist Party - League of Peace "). Four days later, the SPJ party chairman Tomiichi Murayama announced his resignation as prime minister, the SPJ, renamed the Social Democratic Party a few days later after its completion. The SDP continued the coalition with the LDP as a small partner under Ryutaro Hashimoto initially continued and lost more members, especially to the Democratic Party, founded in the same year. The New Socialist Party was the " bleeding" of the SDP but not profit, and in the elections in October they lost with Tatsukuni Komori and Hiromi Okazaki their overall representation in the House of Commons. Nationally, she received less than two percent of the votes in the proportional representation, the highest proportions in the proportional representation blocks Hokkaidō ( 3.8%) and Chugoku ( 3.4%). 1998 ( proportional representation ) were also deselected the three upper house members of the NSP Osamu Yatabe ( Ibaraki ), Kimiko Kurihara ( Hiroshima ) and Tetsuo Yamaguchi. Even in later national elections, the New Socialist Party could not achieve any success. For the 2007 Sangiin - choice, she joined together with the " green table " in the electoral alliance 9- jo Net on ( "Network Article 9") in the proportional representation, the country's only got 0.46 % of votes. In the elections of 2009 and 2010, she renounced nationwide nominations.

One of the key demands of the party include the preservation of the " Peace Constitution " demilitarized neutrality and a " democratic, new socialism " (民主 的 な 新しい 社会 主義, Minshu - teki na Atarashii shakai - shugi ) of socialism on the Soviet model and of itself of "social democracy that approves the application [ ... ] military force " to ( ...軍事 力 の 行使 を 是認 する 社会 民主 主義) differ.

The party was chaired by Osamu Yatabe 2002 Tatsukuni Komori, 2005 then Kimiko Kurihara.