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Komeito 公明党 | |
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| Leader | Natsuo Yamaguchi |
| Deputy Leaders | Kazuo Kitagawa Noriko Furuya Tetsuo Saito |
| Secretary-General | Keiichi Ishii |
| Councilors Leader | Makoto Nishida |
| Founded | November 7, 1998 |
| Merger of | Kōmeitō (1962) New Peace Party Reform Club |
| Headquarters | 17 Minamimoto-machi, Shinjuku, Tokyo 160-0012 |
| Newspaper | Komei Shimbun |
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| Political position | Centre[B][5] |
| Religion | Buddhism (Soka Gakkai)[6] (de facto) |
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| Slogan | 大衆と共に (Taishū to tomo ni)[7] ("With the Public") |
| Representatives | 32 / 465 |
| Councillors | 27 / 248 |
| Prefectural assembly members | 197 / 2,598 |
| Municipal assembly members[8] | 2,689 / 29,425 |
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^ A: Komeito embraces market liberalism to some extent, but it also emphasizes social welfare,[9] and officially puts forward "Humanitarian socialism" as its main ideology.[citation needed] ^ B: It is also sometimes rated as centre-left[10] or right-wing.[11][12] | |
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Komeito (公明党, Kōmeitō), formerly New Komeito and abbreviated NKP, is a political party in Japan originally founded by members of the Buddhist Japanese new religious movement Soka Gakkai in 1964.[13][14] The current incarnation of the party was formed in 1998. Since 2012, it has served in government as the junior coalition partner of the Liberal Democratic Party.[15] Natsuo Yamaguchi has been the president of the party since 8 September 2009 and currently serves as a member of the House of Councillors (the upper house) in the National Diet, the Japanese national legislature (elected in the 2019 Japanese House of Councillors election, constituency is Tokyo at-large district).[16]
After the 2012 Japanese general election, the party held 31 seats in the lower house and 19 seats in the upper house. The number of lower house seats increased to 35 after the 2014 Japanese general election[17] and to 25 seats[18][19] in the upper house after winning 14 in the 2016 general election.[20] In the 2017 Tokyo prefectural election, the party garnered a total of 23 seats,[21][22] up one from the previously held 22 seats.[23] It lost six seats, down to 29 seats in the lower house after the 2017 Japanese general election.[24] In 2021 general election, the party gained 3 seats, increasing to 32 seats.[25]
- ^ Far Eastern Affairs. East View Publications. 1978. p. 112.
- ^ Ronald J Hrebenar, ed. (2000). Japan's New Party System. Avalon Publishing. p. 167.
The Komeito Returns: The Party of "Buddhist Democracy"
- ^ George Ehrhardt; Axel Klein; Levi McLaughlin, eds. (2014). Kōmeitō: Politics and Religion in Japan. Institute of East Asian Studies. p. 67.
- ^ Lucien Ellington, ed. (2009). Japan. ABC-CLIO. p. 168. ISBN 9781598841626.
... Because of this political strength, the Liberal Democratic Party has in recent years included the moderate to socially conservative Komeito Party in coalition governments.
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- "今さら聞けない?! 「保守」「リベラル」ってなんだ？" [Can't you ask about them now ?! What are "conservative" and "liberal"?] (in Japanese). Retrieved 15 May 2020.
- "Japan ruling bloc near agreement on security shift". Associated Press. 27 June 2014. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
- Harding, Robin (17 October 2017). "Coalition partner keeps Japan's Abe in power — and in check". Financial Times. Archived from the original on 10 December 2022. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
Natsuo Yamaguchi, the low-profile leader of the centrist Komeito party
- ^ Metraux, Daniel A. (1996), "The Soka Gakkai: Buddhism and the Creation of a Harmonious and Peaceful Society", Engaged Buddhism: Buddhist Liberation Movements in Asia, State University of New York Press, p. 386
- ^ "公明党" [Komeito]. komei.or.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 28 July 2019.
... 結党以来のスローガン『大衆とともに』の精神こそ、 ...
- ^ Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, party membership statistics for chief executives and assembly members in prefectures and municipalities: Prefectural and local assembly members and governors/mayors by political party as of 31 December 2021
- ^ "The hidden power of Komeito on Japanese politics". East Asia Forum. 3 December 2021. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
Observers can expect Kishida to avoid difficult debates over security policy, expand social welfare spending, and consider only limited social reforms to satisfy Komeito.
- ^ "公明党は安保法制の「歯止め」か「触媒」か" [Which is the Komeito party "stop" or "catalyst" in security legislation?]. 16 April 2015. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
- ^ "Japan: Return of the Right". Frontline. 11 January 2013. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
The LDP will be ruling in coalition with another right-wing party—the Komeito.
- ^ Jeffrey Haynes (2020). Politics of Religion: A Survey. "the NKP is a right-wing, conservative party with religious goals."
- ^ Klein, Axel; McLaughlin, Levi (2 September 2020). Pekkanen, Robert J; Pekkanen, Saadia M (eds.). "Kōmeitō: The Party and Its Place in Japanese Politics". The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Politics. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190050993.001.0001. ISBN 9780190050993. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
- ^ Matsutani, Minoru (2 December 2008). "Soka Gakkai keeps religious, political machine humming". The Japan Times, Ltd. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
- ^ Yoshida, Reiji (18 December 2012). "LDP charges back, vows to regain voter confidence". The Japan Times, Ltd. Retrieved 12 May 2019.
- ^ "Members: Mr. YAMAGUCHI Natsuo". House of Councillors, The National Diet of Japan. Retrieved 21 July 2019.
- ^ "Abe tightens grip on power as ruling coalition wins 325 seats in Lower House election". The Japan Times, Ltd. 15 December 2014.
- ^ Osaki, Tomohiro (11 July 2016). "LDP-led ruling bloc, allies clear two-thirds majority hurdle in Upper House poll". The Japan Times, Ltd. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
- ^ "2016 House of Councillors election result infographics". The Mainichi Newspapers. 12 July 2016. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
- ^ Sieg, Linda; Funakoshi, Minami (11 July 2016). "Japan's ruling bloc wins landslide in upper house election". Thomson Reuters. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
- ^ Sieg, Linda (3 July 2017). "Japan PM's party suffers historic defeat in Tokyo poll, popular governor wins big". Reuters. Thomson Reuters. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
- ^ Osaki, Tomohiro (2 July 2017). "Koike's camp clobbers Abe's LDP in historic Tokyo assembly election". The Japan Times, Ltd.
- ^ "LDP trailing Koike's Tomin First no Kai in Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly race: poll". The Japan Times Ltd. Kyodo News. 25 June 2017. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
- ^ Mayger, James; Dormido, Hannah; Warren, Hayley; Sam, Cedric; Leung, Adrian; Dodge, Sam; Qiu, Yue (24 October 2017). "Japan's Abe Has Pulled Off a Landslide—But He's Not as Popular as You Might Think [2017 Japan post-election analysis]". Bloomberg L.P. Bloomberg. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
- ^ Murakami, Sakura; Park, Ju-min; Takenaka, Kiyoshi (1 November 2021). "Japan's Kishida defies expectations as ruling LDP easily keeps majority". Reuters. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
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