New Socialist Party of Japan

This article is about the political party founded in 1996. For other Japanese socialist parties, see Japan Socialist Party (disambiguation).

The New Socialist Party of Japan (新社会党, Shin Shakai-tō) is a socialist political party in Japan founded on 3 March 1996 by a group of politicians who left the Social Democratic Party.^[1][2]

New Socialist Party of Japan 新社会党
Chairman	Hiromi Okazaki
Secretary-General	Hirokuni Chonan
Founded	1 January 1996 (1996-01-01)
Split from	Social Democratic Party
Headquarters	2-10 Sanshin Industry Building 3F, Jinbō-chō, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0051, Japan
Ideology	Socialism Environmentalism
Political position	Left-wing to far-left
Colors	Green
Councillors	0 / 248
Representatives	0 / 465
Prefectural assembly members	1 / 2,598
Municipal assembly members	14 / 29,425
Website
sinsyakai.or.jp
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The party's ideology is similar to that of the Japanese Communist Party, advocating socialism (including scientific socialism and Marxism), direct democracy, non-interventionism and pacifism.^[3] The party hopes to start a "peaceful democratic revolution", and wants to enshrine pacifism and human rights in the Constitution of Japan. The party also opposes nuclear power, saying it could be used for nuclear weaponry in the future.^[4]

See also

• Leftist Socialist Party of Japan

References

1. 94045: Japan's Uncertain Political Transition
2. Reed, Steven R. (2003). Japanese electoral politics: creating a new party system. Psychology Press. p. 77. ISBN 978-0-415-31140-3.
3. New Socialist Party of Japan 21st Century Declaration (PDF)
4. http://translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://www.sinsyakai.or.jp/&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dsinsyakai%26hl%3Den (Dead link)

External links

• (in Japanese) New Socialist Party of Japan