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Tokyo 23rd District
is an electoral district in the House of Representatives (Japan), Japanese House of Representatives. The district was established in 1994 at the introduction of the single member constituency system. Areas covered Current district As of 12 January 2023, the areas that are covered by this district are as follows: * Machida, Tokyo, Machida As part of the 2022 reapportionments, the remaining sections of Tama, Tokyo, Tama were given to the new Tokyo 30th district, 30th district. As a result of this the 23rd district became the only district in Western Tokyo to be composed of a single municipality. Areas 2017–2022 Between the first redistricting in 2017 and the second redistricting in 2022, the areas covered by this district were as follows: * Machida, Tokyo, Machida * Parts of Tama, Tokyo, Tama ** Sekido 5 (excluding 1-8 & 13-31), Sekido 6, Kaitori, Gouda, Wada, Mogusa, Ochikawa, Higashiterakata, Sakuragaoka 1-4, Hijirigaoka 1 (1-24, 35, Excluding 44), Umabikizawa 1-2, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Parliament
In modern politics and history, a parliament is a legislative body of government. Generally, a modern parliament has three functions: Representation (politics), representing the Election#Suffrage, electorate, making laws, and overseeing the government via hearings and inquiries. The term is similar to the idea of a senate, synod or congress and is commonly used in countries that are current or former monarchies. Some contexts restrict the use of the word ''parliament'' to parliamentary systems, although it is also used to describe the legislature in some presidential systems (e.g., the Parliament of Ghana), even where it is not in the Legal name, official name. Historically, parliaments included various kinds of deliberative, consultative, and judicial assemblies. What is considered to be the first modern parliament, was the Cortes of León, held in the Kingdom of León in 1188. According to the UNESCO, the Decreta of Leon of 1188 is the oldest documentary manifestation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
The , frequently abbreviated to LDP, the Lib Dems, or , is a major conservativeThe Liberal Democratic Party is widely described as conservative: * * * * * and Japanese nationalism, nationalistSources describing the LDP as nationalist: * * * * * * A Weiss (31 May 2018). Towards a Beautiful Japan: Right-Wing Religious Nationalism in Japan's LDP. List of political parties in Japan, political party in Japan. Since its foundation in 1955, the LDP has been in power almost continuously—a period called the 1955 System—except from 1993 to 1996, and again from 2009 to 2012. The LDP was formed in 1955 as a merger of two conservative parties, the Liberal Party (Japan, 1950), Liberal Party and the Japan Democratic Party, and was initially led by Prime Minister of Japan, prime minister Ichirō Hatoyama. The LDP supported Japan's alliance with the United States and fostered close links between Japanese business and government, playing a major role in the country's Japanese eco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Komeito
, formerly New Komeito (NKP) and commonly referred to as simply Komei, is a political party in Japan founded by the leader of Soka Gakkai, Daisaku Ikeda, in 1964. It is generally considered centrist and socially conservative. Since 2012, it has served in government as the junior coalition partner of the nationalist and conservative governments led by the Liberal Democratic Party. Tetsuo Saito has been the president of the party since 9 November 2024. Komeito currently has 24 elected Deputies in the Japanese House of Representatives. History Opposition before 1993 Komeito began as the Political Federation for Clean Government in 1961, but held its inaugural convention as Komeito on 17 November 1964. The three characters 公明党 have the approximate meanings of "public/government" (公 kō), "light/brightness" (明 mei), and "political party" (党 tō). The combination "kōmei" (公明) is usually taken to mean "justice". Komeito's predecessor party, Kōmeitō, was fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
2024 Japanese General Election
General elections were held in Japan on 27 October 2024 due to the early dissolution of the House of Representatives (Japan), House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet, by Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba. Voting took place in List of districts of the House of Representatives of Japan, all constituencies, including Proportional representation, proportional blocks, to elect all 465 members of the House of Representatives. The election was held one month after Ishiba took office as prime minister, after winning a heated contest in the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) 2024 Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) presidential election, presidential election on 27 September, following the resignation of Fumio Kishida as party leader due to his low approval rating amid the 2023–2024 Japanese slush fund scandal, party-wide slush fund corruption scandal. The dissolution of the Diet was held eight days after the prime minister's inauguration an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Akiko Oishi
Akiko can refer to: * Akiko (comic book), ''Akiko'' (comic book), an American comic book * Akiko (film), ''Akiko'' (film), a 1961 Italian comedy film * Amiga custom chips#Akiko, Akiko (Amiga), a custom chip used in the Amiga CD32 games console * Akiko (given name), a common Japanese female given name {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
2021 Japanese General Election
General elections were held in Japan on 31 October 2021, as required by the Constitution of Japan, constitution. Voting took place in all List of districts of the House of Representatives of Japan, constituencies in order to elect List of members of the Diet of Japan, members to the House of Representatives (Japan), House of Representatives, the lower house of the Diet of Japan, National Diet. As the constitution requires the Cabinet of Japan, cabinet to resign in the first Diet session after a general election, the elections will also lead to a new Election of the Prime Minister of Japan, election for Prime Minister in the Diet, and the appointment of a new cabinet, although ministers may be re-appointed. The election was the first general election of the Reiwa era. The election followed a tumultuous period in Japanese politics which saw the sudden resignation of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2020 due to health issues and the short premiership of his successor Yoshihide Suga, who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Reiwa Shinsengumi
is a Progressivism, progressive and left-wing populist List of political parties in Japan, political party in Japan founded by actor-turned-politician Taro Yamamoto in April 2019. The party was formed by left-wing members of the Liberal Party (Japan, 2016), Liberal Party who opposed its merger with the Democratic Party for the People. The party won more than 4% of the vote after contesting the 2019 Japanese House of Councillors election, House of Councilors election in July 2019, gaining two seats only about three and a half months after the formation of the party. History Founding Taro Yamamoto, a member of the House of Councillors (Japan), House of Councillors for Tokyo at-large district, Tokyo, founded the party on 1 April 2019. This was with the intent of standing multiple candidates, including himself, in the upcoming House of Councillors election later in the year. On 10 April, Yamamoto held a press conference and announced the party's platform. 2019 House of Councillors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Tarō Yamamoto
is a Japanese politician and former actor, who is the founder and current leader of the anti-establishment political party Reiwa Shinsengumi. Yamamoto currently serves in the House of Councillors representing Tokyo, and previously served in the House of Representatives from 2021 to 2022. He unsuccessfully ran in the 2020 Tokyo gubernatorial election as a candidate under Reiwa. Early life and acting career Yamamoto was born in Takarazuka, Hyogo; his father died shortly after his birth, and he and his two older sisters were raised by their mother, who sold Persian carpets. He said in his speech that when he was called to the principal's office when he was 11 years old and asked about his future dream, he answered, "Prime Minister". Yamamoto began his career as a television personality in 1990, appearing in dramas such as ''Futarikko'' (1996–97) and ''Shinsengumi!'' (2004). He appeared in dozens of films, including '' Battle Royale'' (2000) and '' Moon Child'' (2003), winning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
2012 Japanese General Election
General elections were held in Japan on 16 December 2012. Voters gave the Liberal Democratic Party a landslide victory, ejecting the Democratic Party from power after three years. It was the fourth worst defeat suffered by a ruling party in Japanese history. Voting took place in all representatives' constituencies of Japan including proportional blocks, in order to appoint Members of Diet to seats in the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. In July 2012, it was reported that the deputy prime minister Katsuya Okada had approached the Liberal Democratic Party to sound them out about dissolving the House of Representatives and holding the election in January 2013. An agreement was reached in August to dissolve the Diet and hold early elections "shortly" following the passage of a bill to raise the national consumption tax. Some right-wing observers asserted that as the result of introducing the consumption tax to repay the Japanese public ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Democratic Party Of Japan
The was a Centrism, centristThe Democratic Party of Japan was widely described as centrist: * * * * * * * to Centre-left politics, centre-left, Liberalism, liberal or Social liberalism, social-liberal List of political parties in Japan, political party in Japan from 1998 to 2016. The party's origins lie in the previous Democratic Party of Japan (1996), Democratic Party of Japan, which was founded in September 1996 by politicians of the centre-right politics, centre-right and centre-left politics, centre-left with roots in the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), Liberal Democratic Party and Japan Socialist Party. In April 1998, the previous DPJ merged with splinters of the New Frontier Party (Japan), New Frontier Party to create a new party which retained the DPJ name. In 2003, the party was joined by the Liberal Party (Japan, 1998), Liberal Party of Ichirō Ozawa. Following the 2009 Japanese general election, 2009 election, the DPJ became the ruling party in the House of R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Mari Kushibuchi
Mari may refer to: Places *Mari, Paraíba, Brazil, a city *Mari, Cyprus, a village *Mari, Greece, a village, site of ancient town of Marius *Mari, Iran (other), places in Iran *Mari, Punjab, a village and a union council in Pakistan *Mari, Syria, ancient Near Eastern city-state *Mari El, a republic in Russia **Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (1936–1990), an administrative division of the Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, and a predecessor to the Mari El mentioned above. **Mari Autonomous Oblast (1920–1936), an administrative division of the Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, and a predecessor to the Mari ASSR. *Mari (crater), an impact crater on Mars Religion *Mari (goddess), Basque goddess *Māri or Mariamman, Indian goddess *Mari Native Religion, surviving pagan religion People and fictional characters *Mari (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name *Mari (surname), a list of people *Abba Mari (c. 1250–c. 1306), Provençal ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Mainichi Shimbun
The is one of the major newspapers in Japan, published by In addition to the ''Mainichi Shimbun'', which is printed twice a day in several local editions, Mainichi also operates an English-language news website called , and publishes a bilingual news magazine, ''Mainichi Weekly''. It also publishes paperbacks, books and other magazines, including a weekly news magazine, ''Sunday Mainichi''. It is one of the four national newspapers in Japan; the other three are ''The Asahi Shimbun'', the ''Yomiuri Shimbun'' and the '' Nihon Keizai Shimbun''. The '' Sankei Shimbun'' and the ''Chunichi Shimbun'' are not currently in the position of a national newspaper despite a large circulation for both. History The history of the ''Mainichi Shimbun'' began with the founding of two papers during the Meiji period. The '' Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun'' was founded first, in 1872. The ''Mainichi'' claims that it is the oldest existing Japanese daily newspaper with its 136-year history. The Osaka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
