The Sakigake Party was a Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese political party which existed from 1998 through 2002. It was a conservative

Conservatism

Conservatism is a political and social philosophy that promotes the maintenance of traditional institutions and supports, at the most, minimal and gradual change in society. Some conservatives seek to preserve things as they are, emphasizing stability and continuity, while others oppose modernism...

 reformist party with ecologist elements. It was right-wing, and today is defunct.

History

The Sakigake Party grew out of the New Party Sakigake

New Party Sakigake

The New Party Sakigake was a Japanese political party that broke away from the Liberal Democratic Party on June 22, 1993. The party was created by Masayoshi Takemura. The party, was a centrist party, and it had many reformist and even moderate ecological elements. The theoretical reader was...

, a party which was created in 1993 by members who broke from the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)

Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)

The , frequently abbreviated to LDP or , is a centre-right political party in Japan. It is one of the most consistently successful political parties in the democratic world. The LDP ruled almost continuously for nearly 54 years from its founding in 1955 until its defeat in the 2009 election...

. In 1996 some liberal members of New Sakigake joined the fledgling Democratic Party of Japan

Democratic Party of Japan

The is a political party in Japan founded in 1998 by the merger of several opposition parties. Its socially liberal platform is generally considered center-left in the Japanese political spectrum...

. The exodus of these liberal members moved the party further to the right.

As part of the ruling coalition in 1998, it had 2 seats in the House of Representatives and 3 in the House of Councillors. In October 1998, the party reformed itself with a more conservative image, dropping the 'New' from its title to become simply Sakigake.

Its popularity heavily declined after that, and by 2001, the party had no seats in either the Lower or Upper House. In 2002, the ecologists took control, and turned the party into an ecologist party. It changed its name to Midori no kaigi, which, because it won no seats in the 2004 Parliamentary elections, dissolved itself on July 22, 2004, spelling an end to the whole Sakigake movement in Japanese politics.

The party gained most of its support from white collar workers and ecologists, and on domestic policy was right-wing conservative, as well as reformist, ecologist.

The party is now defunct.

See also

• Japan
  Japan
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• Politics of Japan
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• List of political parties in Japan
• Conservatism
  Conservatism
  Conservatism is a political and social philosophy that promotes the maintenance of traditional institutions and supports, at the most, minimal and gradual change in society. Some conservatives seek to preserve things as they are, emphasizing stability and continuity, while others oppose modernism...
  
  
• Reformism
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• Ecology
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• New Party Sakigake
  New Party Sakigake
  The New Party Sakigake was a Japanese political party that broke away from the Liberal Democratic Party on June 22, 1993. The party was created by Masayoshi Takemura. The party, was a centrist party, and it had many reformist and even moderate ecological elements. The theoretical reader was...
  
  
• Midori no kaigi
• Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
  Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
  The , frequently abbreviated to LDP or , is a centre-right political party in Japan. It is one of the most consistently successful political parties in the democratic world. The LDP ruled almost continuously for nearly 54 years from its founding in 1955 until its defeat in the 2009 election...
  
  
• New Clean Government Party
• Japan Socialist Party
• Social Democratic Party (Japan)
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  The Social Democratic Party The Social Democratic Party The Social Democratic Party (社会民主党 Shakai Minshu-tō, often abbreviated to 社民党 Shamin-tō; also known as the Social Democratic Party of Japan (abbreviated to SDPJ or SDP in English) is a political party that advocates for the establishment of a...