Okinawa Shakai Taishūtō
| Okinawa Shakai Taishūtō | |||
| Parteivorsitz (iinchō) | Masaharu Kina | ||
| Deputy Chair | Keiko Itokazu | ||
| Secretary General | Katsutoshi Tōyama | ||
| founding | 1950 | ||
| Headquarters | 1-17-19 Izumizaki, Naha , Okinawa Prefecture | ||
| MPs in the Shūgiin |
0/480 |
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| MPs in the Sangiin |
1/241 |
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| Website | www.okinawashadai.com | ||
The Okinawa Shakai Taishūtō ( Japanese 沖 縄 社会 大衆 党 , "Socialist Mass Party Okinawa"; short 社 大 党 , Shadaitō ) is a political party in the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa . She is represented by Keiko Itokazu in the Sangiin , the national upper house, even if Itokazu appears nominally as an independent at the national level. The party chairman is the former Prefectural MP Masaharu Kina .
The Shadaitō was founded in 1950 during the occupation by politicians around Tatsuo Taira , the first governor of the "Government of the Okinawa Islands" ( 沖 縄 群島 政府 , Okinawa-guntō seifu ). After the return of the main islands under Japanese sovereignty, the party in the US civil administration of the Ryūkyū Islands initially belonged to the core of the movement that advocated Okinawa's membership of the Japanese state. In elections to the Rippōin , the parliament of the US-administered Okinawa, it usually cut off as the second strongest force behind the Liberal Democratic Party of Okinawa and its predecessors.
After Okinawa was returned to Japan in 1972, parts of the Shadaitō planned to join the Socialist Party of Japan , which was never carried out. The Shadaitō continues as a regional party in Okinawa.
In national elections, the Shadaitō presented only a few candidates. In the 1972 Shūgiin election , the first general election in which Okinawa took part, Tsumichiyo Asato was able to achieve the fifth highest percentage of votes in the Okinawa constituency (five seats), but later joined the Democratic Socialist Party . In Sangiin, the Shadaitō since 1992. Soko Shimabuku and Keiko Itokazu, both formally elected as independent candidates, almost continuously one of the two representatives of Okinawa - Itokazu came in 2006 back for the gubernatorial election in Okinawa, was but after their defeat by Hirokazu Nakaima in Sangiin -Election 2007 again MPs. Since the 2008 elections, the party has been represented by two members of the Okinawa prefectural parliament. It is also represented in several city and local councils. In gubernatorial and mayoral elections, the Shadaitō often supports a joint candidate with the center-left parties DP and SDP or their forerunners SPJ , which in the form of kakushin tōitsu ( 革新 統一 , "progressive unit") in local elections also long with the KPJ worked together. In Okinawa, the JCP sometimes refrains from putting up its own candidates in national elections and instead supports a joint leftist candidate, most recently in 2007 when Itokazu was re-elected.
Web links
- Official Website (Japanese)
