Nippon Ishin no Kai
Japanese political party / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Japan Innovation Party (日本維新の会, Nippon Ishin no Kai, Japan Restoration Association)[lower-alpha 2] is a conservative and right-wing populist[7][8] political party in Japan.[24] Formed as Initiatives from Osaka in October 2015 from a split in the old Japan Innovation Party, the party became the third-biggest opposition party in the National Diet following the July 2016 House of Councillors election.
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Abbreviation | Ishin, JIP |
Leader | Nobuyuki Baba |
Secretary-General | Fujita Fumitake |
Deputy Leader | Hirofumi Yoshimura |
Founders | Ichirō Matsui Tōru Hashimoto |
Founded | 2 November 2015 (2015-11-02) |
Split from | Japan Innovation Party |
Headquarters | Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan |
Newspaper | Nippon Ishin[1] |
Student wing | Ishin Students |
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Political position | Centre-right[12][13][A] |
Colours | Lime green[14] |
Slogan | 維新はやる。まっすぐに、改革を。 Ishin wa yaru. Massuguni kaikaku o.[15] ("We'll do this. Innovation straight away.") |
Councillors | 20 / 248 |
Representatives | 41 / 465 |
Prefectural assembly members | 124 / 2,598 |
Municipal assembly members | 766 / 32,430 |
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^ A: The party is sometimes described as far-right,[lower-alpha 1][19][20][21] but voters in Japan perceive the party as centrist.[22][23] |
The party advocates decentralization,[2] federalism (Dōshūsei),[citation needed] free education,[25] and limited government policies.[8] Arguing to remove defense spending limits, and standing with the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on revising the constitution,[26] the party gained conservative support during the 2021 general election, primarily in Osaka.[24]
Nippon Ishin no Kai embodies a unique form of right-wing populism distinct from the traditional far-right populism typically seen. Rather than espousing extreme nationalist and social conservative ideologies, Ishin no Kai opposes the LDP's entrenched control over Japanese politics and bureaucracy, known as the 1955 system.[27][28][29]