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A list of Citizendium articles, and planned articles, about Politics of Japan.
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Parent topics

  • Japan [r]: East Asian country of about 3,000 islands; one of the world's largest economies; population about 125,000,000. [e]
  • Politics [r]: The process by which human beings living in communities make decisions and establish obligatory values for their members. [e]
  • Government [r]: The system by which a community or nation is controlled and regulated. A government is a person or group of persons who govern a political community or nation. [e]

Subtopics

  • Emperor of Japan [r]: Head of State of Japan, with a lineage into antiquity but certainly beginning in the 5th century CE; some Emperors have had significant power while others have been principally ceremonial and religious [e]
  • Meiji Restoration [r]: Beginning in 1868, the major change in Japanese governance coming from the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate not only restoration of the monarchy as the real Head of State, but also the modernization of the form of government from feudal to technical-bureaucratic, the end of the samurai class and the development of a national military [e]
  • Japanese party government before World War Two [r]: In 1874, during Meiji Restoration, Japan created political parties, the first party government taking office in 1900; the parties had similarities to but important differences with parliamentary parties in the West; the last prewar parties dissolved themselves in 1940 [e]

Parliament

Government

Political parties

  • Democratic Party of Japan [r]: (民主党 Minshutou) political party formed in 1998 through the merger of parties in opposition to the governing Liberal Democratic Party, including former members of the LDP; won the 2009 Japanese general election and formed a coalition government, but lost heavily to the LDP in 2012. [e]
  • Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) [r]: (自由民主党 Jiyuu-Minshutoo) Conservative Japanese political party which has held power near-uninterrupted since 1955. [e]

Politicians

Democratic Party of Japan

  • Yoshihiko Noda [r]: (野田佳彦) Japanese Prime Minister and leader of the Democratic Party of Japan from August 2011 to December 2012. [e]
  • Naoto Kan [r]: Former Japanese Prime Minister and leader of the Democratic Party of Japan from June 2010 until August 2011. [e]
  • Ichiro Ozawa [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Yukio Hatoyama [r]: (鳩山由紀夫 Hatoyama Yukio) former Prime Minister of Japan and ex-leader of the Democratic Party of Japan (2009-2010); led the party to its first election victory, ousting the Liberal Democratic Party of which he was a former member after 55 years of near-uninterrupted rule (born 1947). [e]

Liberal Democratic Party

Other parties

Independents

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