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Japan Restoration Party (JRP; Nippon Ishin no Kai): the JRP was founded by Tōru Hashimoto the Governor of Osaka Prefectire in 2012 as a result of the merger of several right-wing regional parties, and was the third biggest political block in the National Diet. (2012–2014)
The Conservative Party of Japan (Japanese: 日本保守党, Nippon Hoshutō; CPJ) is a politically conservative, [20] Japanese ultranationalist [9] and right-wing populist [21] political party in Japan. It was founded by novelist Naoki Hyakuta and journalist Kaori Arimoto in 2023, following the passage of the LGBT Understanding Promotion Act.
'Political Participation Party'; self-rendered as Party of Do it Yourself!! in English) [13] is a right-wing populist [14] [15] [16] political party in Japan. The party was founded in 2020 and won a seat in the 2022 House of Councillors election, also becoming an official political party by winning more than 2% of the vote in the election. The ...
A right-wing Japanese party with a stronghold in the western city of Osaka surprisingly emerged as the third-largest in Sunday's election, capitalising on some discontent with the central ...
Shigeru Ishiba, right, with Japan’s current prime minister Fumio Kishida, left, and other candidates, celebrates after Ishiba was elected as new head of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party ...
Liberal Democratic Party members Tsuyoshi Takagi (right) and Ryu Shionoya (left) bow at the beginning of a press conference at the party’s headquarters in Tokyo on Jan. 19, 2024.
Uyoku dantai (右翼団体, lit. 'right-wing groups') refers to Japanese ultranationalist far-right activists, provocateurs, and internet trolls (as netto-uyoku) often organized in groups. In 1996 and 2013, the National Police Agency estimated that there were over 1,000 right-wing groups in Japan with about 100,000 members in total. [1] [2] [3]
Smaller opposition parties also gained seats, including left-wing populist party Reiwa Shinsengumi, right-wing populist party Sanseitō and the newly-formed far-right Conservative Party. Ishiba was re-elected Prime Minister in the Diet on 11 November as head of an LDP-Komeito minority government.