Right Socialist Party of Japan

This article is about the Japanese political party that existed from 1951 to 1955. For other Japanese socialist parties, see Japan Socialist Party (disambiguation).

The Right Socialist Party of Japan (社会党右派, Shakaitō-uha) was a political party in Japan that existed between 1951 and 1955.^[6]

Right Socialist Party of Japan 社会党右派 Shakaitō-uha
Founded	24 October 1951[1]
Dissolved	13 October 1955[2]
Split from	Japan Socialist Party
Merged into	Japan Socialist Party
Headquarters	Tokyo, Japan
Newspaper	Shakai Shimbun
Ideology	Democratic socialism[3][4] Social democracy Anti-communism[3][5] Anti-class conflict[5]
Political position	Centre-left
Colors	Sky blue (official)   Orange (customary)
Politics of Japan Political parties Elections

History

Following the signing of the San Francisco Peace Treaty in 1951, the Japan Socialist Party dissolved into chaos and internal bickering between moderate reformist socialists and more radical revolutionary socialists over the issue of whether or not to support the Treaty. As a result of the JSP split, some of its members formed a more centrist social-democratic party, while others formed a more radical socialist party. Both groups claimed the name Nihon Shakaitō (日本社会党) but different English translations, and are known as the Left Socialist Party of Japan and the Right Socialist Party of Japan, respectively. On domestic policy, the Right Socialist Party was a centre-left social-democratic party.

The left wing was in chaos between 1951 and 1955. In early 1955, the Left Socialists and the Right Socialists reconciled and merged to reform the JSP, months before the Liberal Democrat Party was created through the merger of the Liberal and Democrat parties. Even though the Right Socialist Party dissolved in 1955 when the JSP reunified, some members of the former Right Socialist Party broke off from the JSP in 1960 and created the Democratic Socialist Party. The Young Socialists, a newly formed youth organisation which retains full membership in the International Union of Socialist Youth, is said to be inherited from the political tradition of the Right Socialist Party.

Election results

House of Representatives

Election	Leader	Votes	%	Seats	+/–	Position	Status
1952	Jōtarō Kawakami	4,108,274	11.63	57 / 466	new	3rd	Opposition
1953		4,677,833	13.52	66 / 466	9	4th	Opposition
1955		5,129,594	13.86	67 / 467	1		Opposition
Source: [7]

House of Councillors

Election	Leader	Constituency			Party list			Seats		Position	Status
		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Won	Total
1953	Jōtarō Kawakami	2,952,803	10.54	7 / 75	1,740,423	6.44	3 / 53	10 / 128	26 / 250	4th	Opposition

See also

• Democratic Socialist Party (Japan)
• Socialist Democratic Federation (Japan)
• List of political parties in Japan
• Politics of Japan
• Social Democratic Party (Japan)

References

Citations

1. Kanda 1983, p. 361.
2. Shibagaki 1983, p. 101.
3. Junnosuke Masumi, ed. (2022). Contemporary Politics in Japan. Univ of California Press. p. 313. ISBN 9780520332782. The first congress of the Right Socialist Party, held in January 1952, the year following the party's formation, raised the banner of "democratic socialism" and declared that the Left Socialist Party, led by a group of procommunists, would degenerate into "the puppet force of the JCP" within a few months.
4. Journal of Social and Political Ideas in Japan - Volumes 3-4. Center for Japanese Social and Political Studies. 1965. p. 96. Since the right wing of the Socialist Party, in opposing communism, based itself ideologically on democratic socialism, the left wing of the Socialist Party, in order to win in its ideological competition with the Communist Party, has regarded the ideology and actions of the right wing as inimical to party unity . To all appearances, Suehiro Nishio symbolized the thought and behavior of the right wing of the Socialist Party.
5. Shibagaki 1983, p. 97.
6. Mosk 2007, p. 239.
7. Shibagaki 1983, p. 86.

Sources

• Kanda, Fuhito (1983). Senryō to minshu shugi. Showa no Rekishi (in Japanese). Vol. 8. Shogakukan. ISBN 4-09-376008-X.
• Shibagaki, Kazuo (1983). Kōwa kara kōdo seichō e. Showa no Rekishi (in Japanese). Vol. 9. Shogakukan. ISBN 4-09-376009-8.
• Mosk, Carl (2007). Japanese Economic Development: Markets, Norms, Structures. Routledge. ISBN 9781135982898.