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Short description: Japanese left wing populist and progressive political party
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Reiwa Shinsengumi

れいわ新選組
Co-leadersTaro Yamamoto
Akiko Oishi
Mari Kushibuchi
FounderTaro Yamamoto
Founded1 April 2019 (2019-04-01)
Split fromLiberal Party
Headquarters1F, Akasaka-Kōei Bldg. 3-2-6 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo
IdeologyProgressivism
Left-wing populism
Political positionLeft-wing[1][2][3][4]
Colors<span style="background-color:Script error: No such module "Political party".; color:; border:1px solid silver; text-align:center;">     Pink[5][6]
Slogan「日本を守る」とは、「あなたを守る」ことから始まる
("Nihon wo mamoru to ha anata wo mamoru kotokara hajimaru."
"Protecting Japan starts with protecting you.")[7]
Councillors
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Representatives
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Prefectural assembly members
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Municipal assembly members
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Website
reiwa-shinsengumi.com

Reiwa Shinsengumi (Japanese: れいわ新選組) is a progressive[8][9] and left-wing populist[10][11] political party in Japan founded by actor-turned-politician Taro Yamamoto in April 2019. The party was formed by left-wing members of the Liberal Party who opposed its merger with the Democratic Party for the People.[12] The party won more than 4% of the vote after contesting the House of Councilors election in July 2019, gaining two seats only about three and a half months after the formation of the party.[13]

The party is variously described as being anti-austerity, anti-establishment,[11][14][15] and anti-nuclear power[16] as well as supporting animal welfare,[16] minority rights,[16][17] and economic interventionism.[18] The party is sometimes considered a "liberal-populist" party,[19] and the main supporters of this party are also left-liberals.[20][21]

History

Founding

Taro Yamamoto, a member of the House of Councillors for Tokyo, founded the party on 1 April 2019. This was with the intent of standing multiple candidates, including himself, in the upcoming House of Councillors election later in the year.[12] On 10 April, Yamamoto held a press conference and announced the party's platform.[22]

2019 House of Councillors election

The party stood multiple candidates in the 2019 House of Councillors election. The party won 2.2 million votes in the national PR block, exceeding the 2% threshold needed to be recognised as a political party, and securing two seats. Nearly one million votes were cast for Yamamoto personally; however, because the party had nominated Yasuhiko Funago and Eiko Kimura, both of whom have disabilities,[23] ahead of him in the party list, Yamamoto did not win a seat.[24] The National Diet Building was adapted to allow barrier-free access for wheelchair users.

Notable party members include university professor Ayumi Yasutomi and former deputy representative of the North Korean abduction liaison Toru Hasuike.

2020 Tokyo gubernatorial election

Yamamoto was one of the 22 candidates participating in the 2020 Tokyo gubernatorial election, coming in third place with 10.72% of the votes. The party promises included a direct cash handout programme due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[25]

2021 Japanese general election

Yamamoto joined with the leaders of the Constitutional Democratic Party, Japanese Communist Party, and Social Democratic Party in running a joint opposition coalition based on common policy goals.[26] Yamamoto, who had been formerly running in Tokyo's 8th district, withdrew to run in the Tokyo PR block to avoid vote splitting against the CDP's Harumi Yoshida. The withdrawal came following pushback from local residents, who were hesitant to vote for Yamamoto, a "parachute candidate," over Yoshida, who had been active within the community for many years prior.[27] The party further withdrew 7 candidates as part of the joint platform to avoid vote splitting between the opposition parties, accounting for 40% of Reiwa Shinsengumi's planned slate of candidates.[28][29]

There are 20 other candidates besides Yamamoto, running under the Reiwa Shinsengumi banner. One of them is Takashi Takai, who was expelled from the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan after ignoring COVID-19 state of emergency laws.[30] Takai is Reiwa Shinsengumi's only sitting legislator, formerly elected on the CDP list for the Chūgoku proportional representation block. Takai will be running at Shiga Prefecture's 3rd District.[31]

2022 House of Councillors election

Yamamoto announced his resignation from the House of Representatives he was elected to in 2021 general election, and contested in Tokyo metropolitan constituency.[32] Reiwa gained three seats in the election: Yamamoto winning a seat in Tokyo, along with two other candidates who took up seats in the nationwide proportional representation block.[33][34]

Policies

In a press conference held shortly after the founding of the party, Yamamoto announced that his party would push for the abolition of the consumption tax and instead, make the corporation tax a progressive tax and increase government bonds.[35] In addition, he said that the party is against the construction of the Henoko base. They would also ban nuclear power entirely, raise the minimum wage to ¥1,500 per hour with public guarantee, implement laws protecting free education, disability rights, LGBT rights, animal rights, institute a basic income of ¥30,000 (circa United States dollar 283 as of September 2020) per person per month whenever inflation is below 2% (benefits would end whenever inflation is not below the threshold and resume if it goes below again), and reinforce social services.[36]

The party has announced that it would reverse/abolish many of the laws that were revised or passed by Prime Minister Shinzō Abe if elected, including the pre-emptive anti-terrorism law such as martial law State Secrecy Law and the 2015 Japanese military legislation.[citation needed]

Leader

No. Name
(Birth–death) 		Constituency / title Term of office Election results Image Prime Minister (term)
Took office Left office
Split from: a part of Liberal Party (2016) (centre-left)
1 Taro Yamamoto
(b. 1974) 		None
(Cou for Tokyo
until 21 July 2019) 		1 April 2019 Incumbent
2019
Unopposed
 Taro Yamamoto 202006 (cropped).jpg Abe S. 2012–2020
Suga 2020–2021
Kishida 2021–present

Election results

House of Representatives

Election Leader Candidates Seats Position Constituency votes PR Block votes Government
No. ± Share Number % Number %
2021 Taro Yamamoto 21
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 new 0.6% 7th 248,280 0.43% 2,215,648 3.86% Opposition

House of Councillors

Election Leader Candidates Seats Nationwide Prefecture Status
Total Won Votes % Votes %
2019 Taro Yamamoto 10
2 / 245
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 2,280,252 4.6 214,438 0.4 Opposition
2022 14
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 2,319,157 4.4 989,716 1.9 Opposition

Tokyo gubernatorial

Election Candidate Votes % Finishing place Result
2020 Taro Yamamoto 657,277 10.72 3rd Lost

Tokyo prefectural

Election Leader Votes % Seats
2021 Taro Yamamoto 37,299 0.80
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See also

Notes

References

  1. ↑ Thisanka Siripala (2019-08-06). "Japan's Upper House Election Results A Win for Diversity". The Diplomat. https://thediplomat.com/2019/08/japans-upper-house-election-results-a-win-for-diversity/. 
  2. ↑ Daisuke Minami (2019-08-02). "Is Populism Finally Coming to Japan?". The Japan Times. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/08/02/commentary/japan-commentary/populism-finally-coming-japan/. 
  3. ↑ "Japan's first severely disabled lawmakers join parliament". BBC News. 2019-08-01. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-49188555. 
  4. ↑ Mizushima, Jiro (2022-07-18). "ポピュリズムが支持される理由" (in ja). Mainichi Shimbun. https://mainichi.jp/premier/politics/articles/20220715/pol/00m/010/029000c. Retrieved 2022-07-18. "... れいわ新選組のような急進左派的な主張を掲げる新しい政党が支持を集めてきており ..." 
  5. ↑ (in ja)Tokyo Shimbun. June 26, 2020. https://www.tokyo-np.co.jp/article/38042. 
  6. ↑ (in ja)The Sankei News. July 20, 2019. https://www.sankei.com/premium/news/190720/prm1907200007-n1.html.+"会場の広場にはれいわ新選組のシンボルカラーであるピンクの幟（のぼり）が林立し、..." 
  7. ↑ "れいわ新選組のチラシ" (in ja). れいわ新選組. 26 August 2020. https://reiwa-shinsengumi.com/flier/. Retrieved 2023-05-27. 
  8. ↑ Robert J. Pekkanen, ed (2023). Japan Decides 2021: The Japanese General Election. Springer Nature. p. 65. ISBN 9783031113246. https://books.google.com/books?id=zQafEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA65. "Reiwa Shinsengumi is usually viewed as a progressive populist party." 
  9. ↑ Brasor, Philip (20 July 2019). "Citizen campaigns seek to increase voter turnout in Upper House election". The Japan Times. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/20/national/media-national/citizen-campaigns-seek-increase-voter-turnout-upper-house-election/. 
  10. ↑
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Minami, Daisuke (2 August 2019). "Is Populism Finally Coming to Japan?". The Japan Times. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/08/02/commentary/japan-commentary/populism-finally-coming-japan/. 
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 "山本太郎氏「れいわ新選組」設立 「この国の人々、お守りいたす」" (in ja). The Sankei News. 10 April 2019. https://www.sankei.com/article/20190410-RMR6JIPY7FM6VENNI5UNVFISA4/. 
  13. ↑ (in Japanese)Asahi Shimbun Digital. 11 April 2019. https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASM4B5DL1M4BUTFK013.html. 
  14. ↑ "Reiwa Shinsengumi makes splash in Japanese election debut, giving voice to people with disabilities". The Japan Times. 22 July 2019. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/22/national/politics-diplomacy/anti-establishment-group-reiwa-shinsengumi-makes-big-strides-japanese-politics/. 
  15. ↑ "Man with Lou Gehrig's disease wins seat in Japan's parliament for 1st time". Kyodo News. 22 July 2019. https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2019/07/0476a31c4912-man-with-lou-gehrigs-disease-wins-seat-in-japanese-diet-for-1st-time.html. 
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 "Error: no |title= specified when using {{Cite web}}" (in ja). 11 July 2019. https://reiwa-shinsengumi.com/policy/. 
  17. ↑ NEWS, KYODO. "New anti-establishment political group makes big strides in Japan". https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2019/07/fdd226f7b3f7-new-group-led-by-actor-turned-politician-yamamoto-wins-seat.html. 
  18. ↑ Blondy, Théophile (21 July 2019). "Le Reiwa Shinsengumi un parti " populiste "" (in fr). Le Petit Journal. https://lepetitjournal.com/tokyo/japon-elections-reiwa-shinsengumi. "Le programme appelle directement et sur presque tous les sujets à un interventionnisme plus marqué de l'Etat;" 
  19. ↑ Helen Hardacre, ed (2021). Japanese Constitutional Revisionism and Civic Activism. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 136. ISBN 9781793609052. https://books.google.com/books?id=8mUuEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA136. "... Sometimes regarded as a "liberal-populist" party, a new political party, Reiwa Shinsengumi, arose in a "riot" of people who believed they have been marginalized by Japanese capitalism and democracy.26 The party's charismatic leader, ..." 
  20. ↑ "El PLD del asesinado Shinzo Abe logra una holgada victoria en los comicios en Japón" (in es). El HuffPost. 11 July 2022. https://www.huffingtonpost.es/entry/el-gobernante-pld-de-japon-logra-una-holgada-victoria-en-los-comicios-tras-el-asesinato-de-abe_es_62cb93a7e4b0451684643704. "El Partido Comunista de Japón ha logrado en estos comicios 4 escaños, que junto a los que ya tenía en la otra mitad suman 11; y el liberal Reiwa Shinsengumi (liberal), 3 asientos, hasta sumar 5, según los resultados divulgados. El resto de escaños se han repartido entre partidos minoritarios y candidatos independientes." 
  21. ↑ Helen Hardacre, ed (2021). Japanese Constitutional Revisionism and Civic Activism. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 86. ISBN 9781793609052. https://books.google.com/books?id=8mUuEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA86. "Reiwa Shinsengumi—a new party formed after the 2019 House of Councillors' election, single-handedly carrying the hopes of left-wing liberals—and the Communist Party jointly demanded “protection of Article 9 as is” (kyūjō goken)." 
  22. ↑ (in Japanese). 12 April 2019. https://sirabee.com/2019/04/12/20162064572/. 
  23. ↑ Funago with ALS and Kimura with cerebral palsy
  24. ↑ "Reiwa Shinsengumi makes splash in Japanese election debut, giving voice to people with disabilities". 22 July 2019. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/22/national/politics-diplomacy/anti-establishment-group-reiwa-shinsengumi-makes-big-strides-japanese-politics/. 
  25. ↑ Submission, Internal (2020-06-15). "Reiwa Shinsengumi leader Taro Yamamoto to run for Tokyo governor" (in en-US). The Japan Times. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/06/15/national/politics-diplomacy/reiwa-shinsengumi-leader-taro-yamamoto-tokyo-governor/. 
  26. ↑ Johnston, Eric (13 October 2021). "Major opposition parties in Japan unite in attempt to dislodge LDP". The Japan Times. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/10/13/national/politics-diplomacy/opposition-unity-explainer/. 
  27. ↑ (in ja)Asahi Shimbun. 10 October 2021. https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASPBB6R87PBBUTFK11F.html. 
  28. ↑ (in ja)Yahoo! News Japan. https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/183f3c5fa2981b8ead0c4ac3fd7b882403a753ff. 
  29. ↑ Kitami, Hideki. "Opposition leader does about-face after backlash" (in en). The Asahi Shimbun. https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14462640. 
  30. ↑ "CDP lawmaker expelled from party over hostess bar visit amid emergency" (in en-US). 2020-04-15. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/15/national/cdp-lawmaker-quit-party-hostess-bar-coronavirus/. 
  31. ↑ (in ja)Kyoto Shimbun. 2021-10-05. https://www.kyoto-np.co.jp/articles/-/651267. 
  32. ↑ "Japan party leader Taro Yamamoto resigns from lower house, sets sights on upper chamber" (in en). Mainichi Daily News. 2022-04-15. https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20220415/p2a/00m/0na/027000c. 
  33. ↑ "参院選 東京 選挙速報・開票結果【随時更新】" (in ja). 2022-06-22. https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/election/sangiin/YE13XXXXXX000/. 
  34. ↑ "LDP, Constitutional Revisionists Strong in 2022 Upper House Election" (in en). 2022-07-11. https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h01380/. 
  35. ↑ "Error: no |title= specified when using {{Cite web}}" (in Japanese). 16 July 2019. https://www.nikkansports.com/general/nikkan/news/201907150001137.html. 
  36. ↑ "Reiwa Shinsengumi – Policies". https://v.reiwa-shinsengumi.com/policy/. 



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