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Social Democratic Party (Japan)

This article is about the currently active Japanese political party established in 1996. For other uses, see Social Democratic Party (Japan) (disambiguation).
Social Democratic Party
社会民主党
Japanese nameShakai Minshu-tō
PresidentMizuho Fukushima
Founded19 January 1996 (1996-01-19)
Preceded byJapan Socialist Party
Merged intoConstitutional Democratic Party of Japan (majority)
Headquarters2-4-3-7F Nagata-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0014
IdeologySocial democracy[1]
Democratic socialism[2]
Progressivism[3]
Pacifism[4]
Political positionCentre-left[5][6] to left-wing[7][3]
International affiliationSocialist International[8]
Colours  Sky blue[9]
Sloganがんこに平和くらしが一番。
Gan ko ni heiwa kurashi ga ichiban.
House of Councillors[10]
2 / 248
House of Representatives
1 / 465
Prefectural assembly members[11]
8 / 2,644
Municipal assembly members[11]
86 / 29,135
Website
sdp.or.jp Edit this at Wikidata

The Social Democratic Party (社会民主党, Shakai Minshu-tō, often abbreviated to 社民党 Shamin-tō; SDP) is a political party in Japan that was established in 1996.[12] Since its reformation and name change in 1996, it has advocated pacifism and defined itself as a social-democratic party.[13] It was previously known as the Japan Socialist Party (日本社会党, Nihon Shakaitō, abbreviated to JSP in English).

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 2010 (Hatoyama Cabinet).

In the 2019 Japanese House of Councillors election, the party won four representatives in the National Diet, two in the lower house and two in the upper house. In November 2020, the party entered into a merger agreement with the Constitutional Democratic Party (CDP) with the SDP's members in the Diet caucusing with the CDP.[14] The party president Mizuho Fukushima held her seat and, in the 2022 House of Councillors elections, the party cleared the minimum two percent voter share to maintain its legal political party status.[15]

  1. ^ "Shakai Minshu-tō towa" 社会民主党[日本](しゃかいみんしゅとう[にほん])とは. kotobank.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 29 May 2020. (from Micropædia)
  2. ^ Donald F. Busky, ed. (2010). Democratic Socialism: A Global Survey. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 201.
  3. ^ a b "일본 좌파 정당, "아, 옛날이여"" (in Korean). 시사IN. 24 April 2008. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
  4. ^ "社会民主党宣言" (Press release). 社会民主党. 2006-02-11.
  5. ^ New Left Review. Ohio State University. 2010. p. 8. In alliance with the centre-left Social Democratic Party, the Hatoyama government had the majority necessary to push its radical programme through, over - riding any LDP opposition in the Upper House.
  6. ^ W. Tow; R. Kersten, eds. (2010). Bilateral Perspectives on Regional Security: Australia, Japan and the Asia-Pacific Region. Springer. p. 55.
  7. ^ Janet Hunter, Cornelia Storz, ed. (2006). Institutional and Technological Change in Japan's Economy: Past and Present. Routledge.
  8. ^ "Members". socialistinternational.org. Socialist International. 29 May 2020.
  9. ^ 日本に定着するか、政党のカラー [Will the colors of political parties settle in Japan?] (in Japanese). Nikkei, Inc. 21 October 2017. Retrieved 29 May 2020.
  10. ^ 社民党OfficialWeb┃議員. Social Democratic Party. Archived from the original on 21 July 2015. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
  11. ^ a b Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (30 March 2018). "Prefectural and municipal assembly members and chief executives by political party as of 31 December, 2017".
  12. ^ 社会黨 憲法改正要綱. National Diet Library. Archived from the original on 24 December 2014. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
  13. ^ "OfficialWebO". Social Democratic Party. Archived from the original on 31 July 2015. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
  14. ^ "Social Democratic Party to split; most Diet members to join CDPJ". The Japan Times. 25 February 2018. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
  15. ^ "社民党、比例得票率２％超で政党要件を維持…５選の福島党首「改憲阻止の闘争全力で」". 読売新聞オンライン (in Japanese). 2022-07-11. Retrieved 2022-07-13.

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