Nippon Ishin no Kai (2016–)

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Nippon Ishin no Kai
Parteivorsitz (Daihyō) Ichirō Matsui
Deputy Chair kyōdō-daihyō :
Toranosuke Katayama
fuku-daihyō :
Yutaka Imai
Hirofumi Yoshimura
Secretary General Nobuyuki Baba
Executive Board Chair Tōru Azuma
PARC Chair Hitoshi Asada
founding November 2015
Headquarters 1-7-16 Shimanouchi, Chūō-ku , Osaka , Osaka Prefecture
Members 14,457 (2016)
Colours) green
MPs in the Shūgiin
10/465
(April 2020)
MPs in the Sangiin
16/245
(April 2020)
Government grants 1.9 billion yen (2020)
Number of members 14,457 (2016)
Minimum age 18 years
Website o-ishin.jp

The Nippon Ishin no Kai ( Japanese 日本 維新 の 会 , dt. About "Assembly for the renewal / restoration of Japan" - see Meiji restoration for the double meaning of ishin as [literal] "renewal, reformation" and [historically occupied] " Restoration / Restoration "; English name not specified) is a political party in Japan . It sees itself primarily as regionalist , calls for the introduction of the “state system” ( Dōshūsei ) and deregulations, and acts as a center-right to right-wing party as an alternative to the other opposition parties, which are mainly in the left-of-center spectrum. The Nippon Ishin no Kai cooperates on many points with the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and supports their plan to amend Article 9 of the Japanese constitution , so it can also be assigned to Japanese neoconservatism .

It was created in the fall of 2015 as Osaka Restoration Association ( Jap. おおさか維新の会 , dt. "Meeting the renewal of Osaka" English. Initiatives from Osaka , IO, IfO u. Ä.) In the cleavage of Ishin no Tō that again in 2014 from the union of two successors of the previously split parties Minna no Tō and the first Nippon Ishin no Kai (English Japan Restoration Party , JRP). The latter was created in 2012 as a national offshoot of the original Ōsaka Ishin no Kai, which has been active as a regional party in the western Japanese prefecture of Osaka since 2010.

The National Party of Osaka Ishin no Kai adopted the name Nippon Ishin no Kai in August 2016 (if it is considered a successor: again), and the Prefectural Party in Osaka keeps its name. In the meantime, other prefectural associations name themselves similarly, e.g. B. Tōkyō Ishin no Kai, Hyōgo Ishin no Kai, etc.

Ōsaka Ishin no Kai as a regional party since 2010

The Ōsaka Ishin no Kai (with Kanji for Osaka as 大阪 維新 の 会 , Ger. "Assembly for the renewal of Osaka", English Osaka Restoration Association ) is a regional party in the Osaka prefecture . It provides the governor of Osaka, the mayors in Osaka's two designated cities , Osaka and Sakai , has a majority in the prefectural parliament and is the strongest party in the city councils of Osaka and Sakai. In the legal sense, the Ōsaka Ishin no Kai is a "political group" , not a party. The party was founded in April 2010 by then governor Tōru Hashimoto .

One of the goals of Ōsaka Ishin no Kai is the transformation of Osaka prefecture into a to , a prefecture like Tokyo , in which the two government-designated cities Osaka and Sakai as well as other surrounding communities are dissolved and their area is divided into "special districts" . Although these districts would be independent municipalities , they left some municipal tasks to the prefecture. In addition, the party wants to streamline the administration, among other things by reducing the number of “affiliated organizations” ( gaikaku dantai : foundations , self-governing bodies , public companies, etc.). She describes the economic situation in the prefecture as the "Osaka crisis" ( Ōsaka no kiki ).

Hashimoto and his party occasionally took a stand on national politics early on and supported candidates in elections in other prefectures, for example Takashi Kawamura and Hideaki Ōmura in the "triple vote" ( triple tōhyō : gubernatorial election, mayoral election, recall referendum for the city council) in Aichi Prefecture and Nagoya City in February 2011.

First foray into national politics

After long preparation by recruiting suitable candidates and positioning themselves on questions of national politics, Ishin no Kai finally advanced to the national level in autumn 2012: Hashimoto and his supporters founded Nippon Ishin no Kai , which also has many former members, for the upcoming general election in 2012 the LDP, which was still unsettled in the opposition, and the DPJ, which had already been decimated several times by splits. The Ōsaka Ishin no Kai continued to exist as the prefecture association of the Japanese Ishin no Kai. Their success, however, remained limited and continued to focus on Osaka: The party was able to win 12 out of 19 constituencies in the direct election in Osaka, it was the strongest force in the proportional representation in Kinki (29 seats) with ten seats and in many other proportional representation blocks (151 seats in total) ) second largest party with a total of 30 seats, but in the direct election it only won two of 281 seats outside Osaka.

Setbacks in Osaka

In 2012 the national parliament passed a law that basically allows the to-plan, the local administrations to be dissolved and ultimately the citizens must decide in a referendum. Already in the mayoral election in Sakai 2013, in which the mayor Takeyama, who was once elected with Hashimoto's support, now clearly opposed the dissolution of the city and thus the Ishin no Kai and their candidates and won with the support of all established parties, the to-Plan experienced one Setback. From then on, efforts focused on the abolition of the city of Osaka. In the preparations for the referendum there, the Ōsaka Ishin no Kai fell out with the Kōmeitō, with whom a regional cooperation agreement had been concluded in 2012. As a result, the party finally lost control of the city parliament of Osaka and, in connection with party resignations, also the majority in the prefectural parliament of Osaka. A concrete to-plan for the dissolution of the city of Osaka into five “special districts” of the Osaka prefecture was nevertheless drawn up and finally presented to the citizens for a vote in May 2015. The opponents just prevailed. Hashimoto announced his retirement from the mayor's office for the next election, the chairmanship of the Osaka Ishin no Kai took over Osaka's governor Ichirō Matsui .

Matsui was also first general secretary of Ishin no Tō , which emerged in 2014 as a major successor in the split and reorganization of Nippon Ishin no Kai and Minna no Tō . But this also split again in 2015. While the rump party approached the Democratic Party in opposition and merged with it to form the Democratic Progressive Party in March 2016 , Hashimoto and Matsui led their supporters in the national parliament into a new Ōsaka Ishin no Kai at the national level, now with legal party status.

As a national party since 2015

Headquarters of the Osaka / Nippon Ishin no Kai in Osaka

The new, national Ōsaka Ishin no Kai was initially led again for a short time by Hashimoto, who - replaced as mayor of the city of Osaka by the desired successor Hirofumi Yoshimura - left the party chairmanship to Governor Matsui in December 2015. The deputies in the national parliament is led by Toranosuke Katayama (upper house, proportional representation), who is “co-chairman” ( kyōdō daihyō ) in the party leadership . The general secretary was Nobuyuki Baba , a member of the House of Commons , the political committee was led by Hitoshi Asada (initially a member of the prefectural parliament in Osaka, since July 2016 in the national upper house), and the executive council was led by Tōru Azuma , a member of the upper house .

Member of Parliament

As of April 2020

  • House of Commons
    • Yasuto Urano (PR Kinki, 3rd term; previously LDP → Ōsaka / Nippon Ishin no Kai → Ishin no Tō)
    • Yasushi Adachi (PR Kinki, 3rd term; previously Minna → Nippon Ishin no Kai → Ishin no Tō)
    • Hidetaka Inoue (PR Kinki, 3rd term; previously LDP → Ōsaka / Nippon Ishin no Kai → Ishin no Tō)
    • Takashi Endō (Osaka 18, 3rd term; previously LDP → Nippon Ishin no Kai → Ishin no Tō)
    • Nobuyuki Baba (Osaka 17, 3rd term; previously LDP → Ōsaka / Nippon Ishin no Kai → Ishin no Tō)
    • Kazumi Sugimoto (PR Tōkai, 3rd term; previously DPJ → Minna → non-party)
    • Seiichi Kushida (PR South Kantō, 1st term)
    • Natsue Mori (PR Kinki, 1st term; previously Nippon Ishin no Kai → Ishin no Tō)
    • Fumitake Fujita (Osaka 12, 1st term; elected in the 2019 by-election)
    • Teruo Minobe (PR Kinki, 1st term; previously LDP → Ōsaka Ishin no Kai; moved up to Takashi Tanihata in 2020 )
  • House of Lords
    • until 2022
      • Toranosuke Katayama (PR national, 5th term; previously LDP → Tachiagare Nippon → Taiyō → Nippon Ishin no Kai → Ishin no Tō)
      • Hitoshi Asada (Osaka, 1st term; previously LDP → Ōsaka / Nippon Ishin no Kai → Ishin no Tō)
      • Kaori Takagi (Osaka, 1st term; previously LDP → independent)
      • Daisuke Katayama (Hyōgo, 1st term)
      • Akira Ishii (PR national, 1st term (+ one in the lower house); previously DPJ → Mirai → Nippon Ishin no Kai → Ishin no Tō)
      • Mitsuko Ishii (PR national, 1st term)
    • by 2025
      • Kunihiko Muroi (PR national, 3rd term (+ one in the lower house); previously LDP → LP → DPJ → Nippon Ishin no Kai → Ishin no Tō)
      • Shigefumi Matsuzawa (Kanagawa, 2nd term (+ three in the lower house); previously non-party → Shinsei → Kokumin no Koe → NFP → Minseitō → DPJ → non-party → Minna → Jisedai → non-party / Mushozoku Club → Kibō → non-party)
      • Tōru Azuma (Osaka, 2nd term; previously LDP → Ōsaka / Nippon Ishin no Kai → Ishin no Tō)
      • Takayuki Shimizu (Hyōgo, 2nd term; previously Nippon Ishin no Kai → Ishin no Tō)
      • Satoshi Umemura (PR national, 2nd term; previously DPJ → independent)
      • Takumi Shibata (PR national, 2nd term; previously LDP → non-party → Minna → Yui → Ishin no Tō → non-party / DFP parliamentary group → Kibō)
      • Muneo Suzuki (PR national, 1st term (+ eight in the lower house), subnational New Party Daichi ; previously LDP → independent → Daichi)
      • Mizuho Umemura (Osaka, 1st term)
      • Shun Otokita (Tokyo, 1st term, subnational Atarashii Tō ; previously Minna → Genki → non-party → Tomin First → non-party → Atarashii Tō)
      • Hirofumi Yanagase (PR national, 1st term; previously DPJ → Tōkyō / Nippon Ishin → Ishin no Tō)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d o-ishin.jp: 常任 役 員 , as of April 12, 2020
  2. ↑ Sōmushō , November 30, 2017: 平 成 28 年分 政治 資金 収支 報告 書 の 要旨 (PDF)
  3. ↑ a b 衆議院 議員 Shūgiin giin
  4. ↑ a b 参議院 議員 Sangiin giin
  5. ↑ Sōmushō , April 1, 2020: 令 和 2 年分 政党 交付 金 の 交付 決定 (PDF)
  6. ↑ o-ishin.jp: 募集 要 項 (Japanese), accessed November 24, 2018
  7. ↑ o-ishin.jp - 日本 維新 の 会 に つ い て (Japanese), accessed April 12, 2020
  8. ↑ o-ishin.jp - 規 制 改革 ・ 地方 分 権 (Japanese), accessed April 12, 2020
  9. ↑ Abe sails toward another electoral victory. In: East Asia Forum. July 12, 2019, accessed April 12, 2020 .
  10. ↑ 維新 は 「自 民 よ り 右」？ ア ン チ 東京 が 生 ん だ 強 さ . In: Asahi Shimbun . April 28, 2017, Retrieved April 12, 2020 (Japanese).
  11. ↑ Abe clears decks for debate on amending Japan's Constitution. In: The Japan Times . October 3, 2019, accessed April 12, 2020 .
  12. ^ Website of the Tōkyō Ishin no Kai
  13. ^ Website of the Hyōgo Ishin no Kai
  14. ↑ Ōsaka Ishin no Kai: 政策
  15. ↑ Akihisa Aoyama, Akira Osanai: Triple electoral battle under way. (No longer available online.) In: Yomiuri Online . January 27, 2011, formerly in the original ; accessed on February 25, 2011 (English).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.yomiuri.co.jp