The was a Japanese
political party
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.
History
The party was formed in December 2013 by
Kenji Eda and 13 other legislators who left
Your Party. Your Party initially refused to acknowledge that six councillors had left its caucus in the
House of Councillors
The is the upper house of the National Diet of Japan. The House of Representatives (Japan), House of Representatives is the lower house. The House of Councillors is the successor to the pre-war House of Peers (Japan), House of Peers. If the t ...
, but filed a notice in February 2014 which acknowledged their departure from Your Party, allowing the Unity Party to have formal representation in the upper house.
The party supported
Morihiro Hosokawa in the
2014 Tokyo gubernatorial election.
Eda had discussions with the
Japan Restoration Party in early 2014 with a view toward coordinating the two parties' policy stances. JRP co-head
Shintaro Ishihara
was a Japanese politician and writer, who served as the Governor of Tokyo Metropolis, Governor of Tokyo from 1999 to 2012. Being the former leader of the Far-right politics, radical right Sunrise Party, later merged with Toru Hashimoto's Japan ...
rejected the idea of coordinating with the Unity Party on the basis of their support for the
Constitution of Japan
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, while the other JRP co-head
Toru Hashimoto saw room for agreement on the scope of necessary revisions to the Constitution.
On 21 September 2014, the Unity Party and the Japan Restoration Party merged to form the
Japan Innovation Party.
Presidents of UP
Members in the Diet
House of Representatives
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Yoichiro Aoyagi (South Kanto PR block)
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Kenji Eda (
Kanagawa 8th district)
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Mitsunari Hatanaka (Kinki PR block)
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Hiroki Hayashi (Tohoku PR block)
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Yosei Ide (Hokuriku-Shin'etsu PR block)
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Nobuhiko Isaka (Kinki PR block)
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Masanari Koike (Tokai PR block)
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Mito Kakizawa (
Tokyo 15th district)
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Tsuyoshi Shiina (South Kanto PR block)
House of Councillors
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Yukio Fujimaki (National block)
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Ryuhei Kawada (National block)
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Yuichi Mayama (National block)
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Jiro Ono (National block)
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Takumi Shibata (National block)
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Sukeshiro Terata (National block)
Election results
Tokyo Gubernatorial Elections
Notes
References
External links
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