The was a Japanese

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History

The party was formed in December 2013 by Kenji Eda and 13 other legislators who left

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. Your Party initially refused to acknowledge that six councillors had left its caucus in the

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, 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

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in the

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. Eda had discussions with the

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in early 2014 with a view toward coordinating the two parties' policy stances. JRP co-head

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rejected the idea of coordinating with the Unity Party on the basis of their support for the

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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

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Presidents of UP

Members in the Diet

House of Representatives

* Yoichiro Aoyagi (South Kanto PR block) * Kenji Eda ( Kanagawa 8th district) * Mitsunari Hatanaka (Kinki PR block) * Hiroki Hayashi (Tohoku PR block) * Yosei Ide (Hokuriku-Shin'etsu PR block) * Nobuhiko Isaka (Kinki PR block) * Masanari Koike (Tokai PR block) * Mito Kakizawa ( Tokyo 15th district) * Tsuyoshi Shiina (South Kanto PR block)

House of Councillors

* Yukio Fujimaki (National block) * Ryuhei Kawada (National block) * Yuichi Mayama (National block) * Jiro Ono (National block) *

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(National block) * Sukeshiro Terata (National block)

Election results

Tokyo Gubernatorial Elections

References

External links

* {{Japan political parties Libertarian parties in Japan Defunct political parties in Japan Political parties established in 2013 2013 establishments in Japan 2014 disestablishments in Japan Neoliberal parties