Democratic Socialist Party (Japan)

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The Democratic Socialist Party ( Japanese 民主 社会 党 , Minshu Shakaitō , from 1969: 民 社 党 , Minshatō , DSP) was the break-off of the right wing ( uha ) of the Socialist Party of Japan (SPJ) that emerged in 1960 . It pursued more moderate positions than the SPJ, its founding program was in part borrowed from the Godesberg program of the German Social Democrats . Like its parent party, it was not free from course disputes and wing battles.

Despite or because of its moderate positions, the DSP was never as successful as the SPJ; in most cases it even fell short of the communists' share of the vote. After the government of Morihiro Hosokawa , in which the DSP was involved, failed, the party went in 1994 in the newly created Shinshinto .

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  • Manfred Pohl: The political parties , in: Country report Japan , Manfred Pohl / Hans Jürgen Mayer (eds.), BpB 1998, Bonn.