New party sakigake
The New Party Sakigake ( Jap. 新党さきがけ , Shinto Sakigake ; about New Party harbinger ; Engl. New Party Harbinger , NPH ) was formed in June 1993, little elimination of deputies of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) led by Masayoshi Takemura . Like the LDP, the New Sakigake Party was a conservative party, but called for reforms in individual areas, including regulating communal finances and environmental protection.
Initially, the New Party Sakigake worked with the Renewal Party, which was spun off from the LDP at almost the same time, and the New Japan Party in the opposition, which was one year older , so that Prime Minister Miyazawa Kiichi lost the majority in parliament. The New Sakigake Party participated in a coalition of all previous opposition parties with the exception of the Communist Party . However, after the following two governments without LDP participation collapsed after barely a year of internal disputes, the Sakigake and the Social Democrats formed a coalition with the LDP. The Sakigake appointed two ministers under Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama .
Since the first founding of the Democratic Party (DPJ) in 1996, in which parts of the Sakigake were involved, it essentially only existed as a small upper house faction. Even the end of the formal cooperation with the LDP - it continued to cooperate in parliament - an emphasis on its ecological program and an official renaming to Sakigake (Japanese さ き が け , English now Sakigake Party ) in October 1998 could not stop the gradual decline. In the upper house elections in 1998 and in the lower house elections in 2000 , the Sakigake received zero seats and then only had the three seats in the upper house that were not available in 1998.
After more Sakigake members joined the DPJ, the party disbanded in January 2002. One of the remaining members of the House of Lords Atsuo Nakamura founded the Green Conference ( み ど り の 会議 , midori no kaigi ), which was insignificant at the national level, but was successful in regional elections. This is now part of the Green Table group ( み ど り の テ ー ブ ル , midori no tēburu ), which in 2008 became part of Midori no Mirai (“Green Future”).