Okinawa Social Mass Party

The Okinawa Shakai Taishūtō (Japanese冲 縄 社会 大众 党, " Socialist Party Okinawa mass "; short社 大 党, Shadaitō ) is a political party in the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa. By Keiko Itokazu it is in Sangiin, the national upper house represented, even if Itokazu nominally occurs at the national level as independents. Party chairman is the former prefecture MPs Masaharu Kina.

The Shadaitō was during the occupation of politicians to Tatsuo Taira, the first governor of the " Government of the Okinawa Islands " (冲 縄 群岛 政府, Okinawa Gunto Seifu ) founded in 1950. After the return of the main islands under Japanese sovereignty belonged to the party of the U.S. Civil Administration of the Ryukyu Islands in the beginning to the core of the movement, which advocated membership of Okinawa to the Japanese government. For elections to the Rippōin, the Parliament of the U.S. managed Okinawa, she cut usually as the second strongest force behind the Liberal Democratic Party of Okinawa and their precursors from.

After the return of Okinawa to Japan in 1972 planned parts of the Shadaitō joining the Japan Socialist Party, which was never completed. The Shadaitō is a regional party in Okinawa on.

In national elections, the Shadaitō presented only occasionally candidates. When Shūgiin - 1972 election, the first general election, took part in the Okinawa, Tsumichiyo Asato could ( five seats) achieve the fifth highest share of the vote in the constituency Okinawa, but later joined the Democratic Socialist Party. In Sangiin, the Shadaitō since 1992 with Soko Shimabuku and Keiko Itokazu, both formally elected as independent candidates, almost continuously one of the two representatives of Okinawa - Itokazu were held in 2006 returned for the gubernatorial election in Okinawa, was but after their defeat by Hirokazu Nakaima in Sangiin election again in 2007 MPs. In Okinawa Prefecture Parliament, the party has been represented since the 2008 elections with two deputies. She is also represented in several city and municipal councils. In gubernatorial and mayoral elections the Shadaitō often support a joint candidate with the center-left parties, DP and SDP or their precursors SPJ that in local elections also long with in the form of Kakushin Toitsu (革新 统一, "progressive unity" ) of the CPY worked. In Okinawa, the CPY dispensed in national elections partly because, their own candidates, and instead support a common candidate of the left, most recently in 2007 at the re-election Itokazus.