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Hyogo At-large District
The is a constituency that represents Hyogo Prefecture in the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan. It currently has five Councillors in the 242-member house, but this representation will increase to six by July 2019. Outline The constituency represents the entire Hyogo Prefecture, which includes the urban centres of Kobe and the Hanshin region, as well as the rural areas to the north and west of the prefecture and Awaji Island. The district has 4,644,254 registered voters as of June 2016, the eighth-highest in the country. The Councillors currently representing Hyogo are: * Shinsuke Suematsu ( Liberal Democratic Party (LDP); term ends in 2016) * Shunichi Mizuoka ( Democratic Party; term ends in 2016) * Yoshitada Konoike (LDP; term ends in 2019) * Takayuki Shimizu (elected as a Japan Restoration Party candidate, currently belongs to Initiatives from Osaka; term ends in 2019) Representation in the House From the first House of Councillors election in 1947 until the 1992 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hokkaido At-large District
The Hokkaido at-large district is a constituency of the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It consists of the prefecture ''(dō)'' of Hokkai ōand is represented by six Councillors electing three at a time every three years by single non-transferable vote for six-year terms. In the election period from 2019 to 2022, Hokkaido's Councillors are (party affiliation as of September 2019): * Gaku Hasegawa ( LDP, Hosoda faction; term ends in 2022), * Eri Tokunaga ( DPFP; term ends in 2022), * Yoshio Hachiro ( CDP; term ends in 2022), * Harumi Takahashi ( LDP; term ends in 2025), * Kenji Katsube ( CDP; term ends in 2025) and * Tsuyohito Iwamoto ( LDP; term ends in 2025). After the House of Councillors had replaced the House of Peers according to the constitution of 1947, Hokkaido was represented by eight Councillors. In the early years of the 1955 System, all four seats went to the two major postwar parties, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and the Japa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Komeito
, formerly New Komeito and abbreviated NKP, is a conservative political party in Japan founded by lay members of the Buddhist Japanese new religious movement Soka Gakkai in 1964. Since 2012, it has served in government as the junior coalition partner of the Liberal Democratic Party. 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). 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 and to 25 seats in the upper house after winning 14 in the 2016 general election. In the 2017 Tokyo prefectural election, the party garnered a total of 23 seats, up one from the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Happiness Realization Party
The , abbreviated as Kōfuku (), is a Japanese political party founded by Ryuho Okawa on 23 May 2009 "in order to offer the Japanese people a third option" for the elections of August 2009. The HRP is the political wing of the conservative Happy Science religious movement. Okawa is the current president of the party. Electoral history In 2009, the party had 345 candidates, placing it on the ballots of 99% of Japan's 300 constituencies. Many perennial candidates such as Yoshiro Nakamatsu joined the HRP. Despite fielding a total of more than 1 million votes, the party did not win any seats in the election. In 2012, the party again failed to gain any seats. As of April 2018, the party had 21 elected local councilors. Policies According to its manifesto, the group's goal is to more than double Japan's population to 300 million through making child-rearing easier for mothers and accepting foreigners as workforce. It also aims to change the pacifist Article 9 of the Japanese Con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daisuke Katayama
Daisuke Katayama is a Japanese politician who is a member of the House of Councillors The is the upper house of the National Diet of Japan. The House of Representatives is the lower house. The House of Councillors is the successor to the pre-war House of Peers. If the two houses disagree on matters of the budget, treaties, or ... of Japan. Biography He graduated from Keio University in 1992 and from Weaseda University in 2012. . References 1966 births 21st-century Japanese politicians Living people Members of the House of Councillors (Japan) {{Japan-politician-1960s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mineo Kaneda
is a politician from Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan who represents the Japanese Communist Party. He has served one term in the Hyogo Prefectural Assembly and contested several local and national elections. Early life and career Kaneda was born in Kobe, Japan on 25 August 1965. After graduating high school he attended Nihon Fukushi University and completed a bachelor's degree in social welfare. After graduation he was employed at the Hyogo Medical Practitioners Association, where he was involved in getting cataract surgery added as a procedure covered by the prefecture's health insurance. Political career Kaneda first developed an interest in politics when a charter bus carrying Nihon Fukushi University students plunged into the Sai River in January 1985, killing the two drivers, a teacher and 22 first-year students. The cause of the accident was determined as driver fatigue due to being overworked. Kaneda, who was also a first-year student at the time, felt anger at a societ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hyogo Prefectural Assembly
The is the prefectural parliament of Hyogo Prefecture. The assembly's 87 members are elected every four years in 40 districts by single non-transferable vote. Nine of the electoral districts correspond with the wards of Kobe city and the remaining 31 districts are made up of the cities and districts (towns and villages) of the prefecture. The electoral district that represents the city of Himeji is the largest, electing 8 representatives to the assembly. The assembly is responsible for acting as a balance against the Governor of Hyogo Prefecture who is responsible for the administration of the prefecture. This role includes enacting and amending prefectural ordinances, approving the budget and checking the administration. Current composition The 2015 Hyogo prefectural election took place on April 12, 2015, as part of the 2015 unified local elections. It was the first election following a reduction in the number of members from 89 to 87. Elections were held in 23 districts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People's Life Party
The was a political party in Japan that merged with the Democratic Party for the People on 26 April 2019. It had 2 out of the 475 seats in the House of Representatives, and 3 in the 242-member House of Councillors prior to merging. Formed as the in December 2012, it changed its name to in December 2014. The party adopted the name Liberal Party in October 2016 in preparation for an expected general election in early 2017. History Foundation The party's foundation lay in the wake of the December 2012 general election, in which the Tomorrow Party of Japan's membership in the 480-seat House of Representatives was reduced from 61 members to just 9. Tension between President Yukiko Kada and former People's Life First party leader Ichirō Ozawa increased to the point that on 26 December 2012 the party's remaining Diet members that were aligned with Ozawa held a meeting in spite of Kada's instruction not to do so. Members aligned with Kada announced their intention to leave the par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Democratic Party (Japan)
The is a political party in Japan that was established in 1996. Since its reformation and name change in 1996, it has advocated pacifism and defined itself as a social-democratic party. It was previously known as the . The party was refounded in January 1996 by the majority of legislators of the former Japan Socialist Party, which was largest opposition party in the 1955 System; however, most of the legislators joined the Democratic Party of Japan after that. Five leftist legislators who did not join the SDP formed the New Socialist Party, which lost all its seats in the following elections. The SDP enjoyed a short period of government participation from 1993 to 1994 as part of the Hosokawa Cabinet and later formed a coalition government with the Liberal Democratic Party under 81st Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama of the JSP from 1994 to January 1996. The SDP was part of ruling coalitions between January and November 1996 ( First Hashimoto Cabinet) and from 2009 to 2010 ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Communist Party
The is a Left-wing politics, left-wing to Far-left politics, far-left List of political parties in Japan, political party in Japan. With approximately 270,000 members belonging to 18,000 branches, it is one of the largest non-governing Communist party, communist parties in the world. The party advocates the establishment of a democratic society based on scientific socialism and pacificism. It believes this objective can be achieved by working within an electoral framework while carrying out an Extra-parliamentary opposition, extra-parliamentary struggle against "imperialism and its subordinate ally, State monopoly capitalism, monopoly capital". As such, the JCP does not advocate violent revolution and instead proposes a "democratic revolution" to achieve "democratic change in politics and the economy". A staunchly antimilitarist party, the JCP firmly supports Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution and aims to dissolve the Japan Self-Defense Forces. The party also opposes U.S.-Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 Japanese House Of Councillors Election
House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on Sunday 10 July 2016 to elect 121 of the 242 members of the House of Councillors, the upper house of the National Diet, for a term of six years. As a result of the election, the Liberal Democratic Party–Komeito coalition gained ten seats for a total of 145 (60% of all seats in the house), the largest coalition achieved since the size of the house was set at 242 seats. 76 members were elected by single non-transferable vote (SNTV) and first-past-the-post (FPTP) voting in 45 multi- and single-member prefectural electoral districts; for the first time, there were two combined (''gōku'') single-member districts consisting of two prefectures each, Tottori-Shimane and Tokushima-Kōchi. This change and several other reapportionments were part of an electoral reform law passed by the Diet in July 2015 designed to reduce the maximum ratio of malapportionment in the House of Councillors below 3. The nationwide district which elects 48 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nagano At-large District
The Nagano at-large district (長野県選挙区, ''Nagano-ken senkyo-ku'') is a multi-member constituency of the House of Councillors of Japan, House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan. It consists of Nagano Prefecture and elects four Councillors, two every three years by single non-transferable vote (SNTV) for six-year terms. The Councillors currently representing Nagano are: * Yūichirō Hata (DPJ, Hata group; term ends in 2013), son of representative and former prime minister Tsutomu Hata and grandson of representative Bushirō Hata, * Hiromi Yoshida (LDP, Nukaga faction; term ends in 2013), * Kenta Wakabayashi (LDP; term ends in 2016), son and successor of councillor and former agriculture minister Masatoshi Wakabayashi, and * Toshimi Kitazawa (DPJ, Hata group; term ends in 2016), son of former Nagano assemblyman Sadakazu (?, 貞一) Kitazawa. Like most two-member districts Nagano often splits seats between the major parties; in the first decades of the 1955 System, a Socialis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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