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First Ishiba Cabinet
The First Ishiba Cabinet was the 102nd Cabinet of Japan, formed by Shigeru Ishiba on 1 October 2024, following the resignation of Fumio Kishida after the Liberal Democratic Party presidential election on 2024 Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) presidential election, 27 September 2024. It has 20 members, including two women. The government was a coalition between the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), Liberal Democratic Party and the Komeito who controlled both the upper and lower houses of the National Diet. After just 41 days it was replaced by the Second Ishiba Cabinet following the 2024 Japanese general election, 2024 election, making it the second shortest-serving cabinet in Japanese history, after the First Kishida Cabinet. Election of the prime minister Cabinet Ministers Citation of this table: List of Ishiba Cabinet Members Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary and Director-General of the Cabinet Legislation Bureau Special Advisors to the Prime Minister D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) Presidential Election
The 2024 Liberal Democratic Party presidential election was held on 27 September 2024 to elect the next President of the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), president of the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), Liberal Democratic Party of Japan for a three-year term. Incumbent LDP President and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced on 14 August that he would not run for re-election, amid record-low approval ratings following controversy over a 2023–2024 Japanese slush fund scandal, slush fund scandal involving the party factions Seiwa Seisaku Kenkyūkai, Seiwakai and Shisuikai, both of which disbanded in January 2024. Kishida's Kōchikai also disbanded. Approval ratings were also mired by the party's affiliations with the Unification Church. The 2024 presidential election was the first since the abolition of most of the party's factions in the wake of the slush fund scandal, which led to commentators describing the election's outcome as unusually volatile and unpredictable. Nine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Majority Government
A majority government is a government by one or more governing parties that hold an absolute majority of seats in a legislature. Such a government can consist of one party that holds a majority on its own, or be a coalition government of multiple parties. This is as opposed to a minority government, where the government doesn't have a majority, and needs to cooperate with opposition parties to get legislation passed. A government majority determines the balance of power. A government is not a majority government if it only has a majority when counting parties outside the government that have a confidence agreement with it. A majority government is usually assured of having its legislation passed and rarely if ever, has to fear being defeated in parliament, a state also known as a working majority. In contrast, a minority government must constantly bargain for support from other parties in order to pass legislation and avoid being defeated on motions of no confidence. Single- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Current Members Of The House Of Representatives Of Japan
This List of current members of the House of Representatives of Japan is a list of members of the House of Representatives (Japan), House of Representatives in Japan's Lower House. The House of Representatives consists of 465 seats, 289 in single-seat constituencies and 176 in a proportional representation block. Term of Office Members of the House of Representatives have a four-year term, but if the House of Representatives is dissolved, they will lose their seats immediately, before the end of their term. Since World War II, their terms have been completed on only one occasion, in 1976. When the term of office expires or the House of Representatives is dissolved, a general election will be held. In addition, by-elections will be held in April or October if there are vacancies for single-seat constituencies. Parliamentary Group As of 9 October 2024. Vacancies No vacant seats. Members Hokkaido block ;Members by single-member constituencies ;Members by Proportional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoshihiko Noda
is a Japanese politician. He is the current leader of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDP), and has been a member of the House of Representatives since 2000. From 2011 to 2012, he was the Prime Minister of Japan. Noda entered politics in 1993 as a member of the now-defunct Japan New Party. In 1996, he joined the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ). After the DPJ won control of the Diet in 2009 general election, Noda was named a senior vice minister of finance in the cabinet of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, and in 2010, was named minister of finance in the cabinet of Prime Minister Naoto Kan. Following Kan's resignation as prime minister, Noda won the ensuing leadership election and was appointed prime minister on 2 September 2011. Following a severe loss for the DPJ in the December 2012 general election, Noda announced his resignation as party leader, triggering a leadership election that was won by Banri Kaieda. Noda was succeeded as Prime Minister by Shinzo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanseitō
Sanseitō (, ; self-rendered as Party of Do it Yourself!! in English) is a Right-wing populism, right-wing populist List of political parties in Japan, political party in Japan. The party was founded in 2020 and won a seat in the 2022 Japanese House of Councillors election, 2022 House of Councillors election, also becoming an official political party by winning more than 2% of the vote in the election. The party promotes COVID-19 misinformation and Anti-vaccine activism, anti-vaccine views. The party's president, Manabu Matsuda, has called COVID-19 vaccines a "murder weapon". Sanseitō gained international media attention during the 2022 Japanese House of Councillors election, 2022 House of Councillors election due to the party's Secretary General, Sohei Kamiya's Antisemitism, antisemitic rhetoric during public appearances and campaign rallies. Observers noted that Sanseitō differ from usual far right political parties in Japan, as most of its supporters are affluent, previously ... [...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 re-founded in January 1996 by the majority of legislators of the former Japan Socialist Party, which was the largest opposition party in the 1955 System. However, most of those 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 election. 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Japanese Communist Party
The is a communist party in Japan. Founded in 1922, it is the oldest political party in the country. It has 250,000 members as of January 2024, making it one of the largest non-governing communist parties in the world. The party is chaired by Tomoko Tamura, who replaced longtime leader Kazuo Shii in January 2024. The JCP, founded in 1922 in consultation with the Comintern, was deemed illegal in 1925 and repressed for the next 20 years, engaging in underground activity. After World War II, the party was legalized in 1945 by the Allied occupation authorities, but its unexpected success in the 1949 general election led to the " Red Purge", in which tens of thousands of actual and suspected communists were fired from their jobs in government, education, and industry. The Soviet Union encouraged the JCP to respond with a violent revolution, and the resulting internal debate fractured the party into several factions. The dominant faction, backed by the Soviets, waged an unsu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nippon Ishin No Kai
The is a conservative and centre-right to right-wing populist political party in Japan. Formed as Initiatives from Osaka in October 2015 from a split in the old Japan Innovation Party, the party became the third-biggest opposition party in the National Diet following the 2016 House of Councillors election. The Japan Innovation Party advocates decentralization, federalism ('' Dōshūsei''), free education, and limited government policies. Arguing to remove defense spending limits, and standing with the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on revising the constitution, the party gained conservative support during the 2021 general election, primarily in Osaka. The party represents a form of right-wing populism that opposes the LDP's entrenched control over Japanese politics and bureaucracy, known as the 1955 system. History In August 2015, Secretary General Kakizawa Mito endorsed a candidate jointly supported by the Communist and Democratic parties in the Yamagata mayoral electi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constitutional Democratic Party Of Japan
The is a Liberalism, liberal List of political parties in Japan, political party in Japan. It is the primary centre-left politics, centre-left party in Japan, and as of 2024 is the second largest party in the National Diet behind the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). It was founded in October 2017 as a split from the Democratic Party (Japan, 2016), Democratic Party ahead of the 2017 Japanese general election, 2017 general election. In late 2020, the party was re-founded following a merger with majorities of the Democratic Party For the People and the Social Democratic Party (Japan), Social Democratic Party as well as some independent lawmakers. The party's platform supports raising the minimum wage, expanded welfare spending, welfare policies, the legalization of same-sex marriage, increased gender equality, renewable energy policies, decentralization, a multilateralism, multilateral foreign policy, the revision of the U.S.–Japan Statu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
