Kaseikai

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The Kaseikai ( Japanese 花 斉 会 , dt. About "Let flowers bloom assembly"), after its current chairman Yoshihiko Noda mostly as Noda group ( 野 田 グ ル ー プ , Noda gurūpu , sometimes abbreviated as 野 田 G ) is a faction of former members of the Japanese Democratic Party (English Democratic Party of Japan, DPJ) and the Democratic Progressive Party (English Democratic Party, DP). In the election for party leader in September 2010, it had around 30 members from the two factions of the DPJ in the national parliament . The core of the faction is formed by graduates of the Matsushita Seikei Juku ( 松下 政 経 塾 , Matsushita Institute of Government and Management ) , which tend to be (reform) conservative . The positions represented in the faction include the revision of Article 9 , continued close cooperation with the United States and the rejection of the party to the unions (desired by the social-democratic factions, especially the Yokomichi Group , Kawabata Group ) .

Since the Noda is close to the Maehara group ( Ryōunkai ) of Seiji Maehara , the two factions are sometimes summarized by the media as Maehara Noda group (s) ( 前 原 ・ 野 田 グ ル ー プ ).

Noda himself ran for the party chairmanship for the first time in 2002, but was defeated by the party founders Naoto Kan ( Kan Group ) and Yukio Hatoyama ( Hatoyama Group ). After the Democrats took over government in 2009, he became State Secretary and then Minister of Finance in 2010 . The faction finally provided three ministers in the Kan cabinet . Noda replaced Kan as chairman of the DPJ in late August 2011 and became Prime Minister of Japan in September . After the DPJ's defeat in the 2012 Shūgiin election  , Noda resigned as chairman and prime minister. The Kaseikai initially remained as an intra-party grouping and, after the factual split in the Democratic Progressive Party in the 2017 election, split into KDP or Kibo members and non- party members. At the moment (2020) the Kaseikai consists of a few members from the KDP and the People's Democratic Party and independents. Noda himself is also independent at the national level.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mainichi Shimbun : News Select, 民主党 党内 人 脈 図 ( Memento from September 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Patrick Köllner: Change of leadership in the DPJ: Background, personnel decisions and perspectives (PDF; 132 kB). Japan current, 6/2005.