Shinto Kizuna

Shinto Kizuna
Kizuna party
Parteivorsitz (Daihyō)	Akira Uchiyama
Deputy Chair	fuku-daihyō: Nobuaki Miwa , Mitsuji Ishida
Secretary General	Kōichirō Watanabe
PARC Chair	Yasunori Saitō
Parliamentary affairs	Juntaro Toyoda
founding	December 30, 2011
resolution	November 15, 2012
MPs in the Shūgiin	7/480 (November 2012)
MPs in the Sangiin	0/242 (January 2012)
Website	kizuna-party.jp

The Shintō Kizuna ( Japanese 新 党 き づ な , "New Kizuna Party"; English Kizuna Party ) was a political party in Japan , which former members of the Democratic Party in the national parliament founded at the turn of the year 2011/2012. In November 2012, she became part of the DP split Kokumin no Seikatsu ga Daiichi .

Democratic party leader Yoshihiko Noda and his cabinet's adherence to the doubling of VAT, which had already been announced under his predecessor Naoto Kan , was rejected by parts of the party close to Ozawa , who wanted to strictly adhere to the election manifesto of 2009, including in particular the promise to keep the VAT in the current Legislative period not to increase. During the preliminary deliberations for the 2012 fiscal year budget (April 2012 – March 2013), nine, mostly young, democrats elected by proportional representation in the House of Representatives at the end of December 2011, declared their withdrawal from the party and on December 30, 2011 founded the Shinto Kizuna. Kizuna, dt. About "band" or "connection", was the word of the year 2011 and was used especially after the Tōhoku earthquake to express the cohesion of Japanese society in support for those affected.

Akira Uchiyama , MP from Chiba , and General Secretary Kōichirō Watanabe from Tokyo , who had already led the Minshutō Kokumin no Koe in 2011 , a group of 16 democrats who quit the party during the budget deliberations in 2011 - a few weeks before the Tohoku earthquake - became chairman of the party threatened. Since the Shinto Kizuna was founded before January 1, 2012 and had more than five members, it was considered a political party in the legal sense in 2012 .

After Ozawa left the Democratic Party himself with other supporters in the summer of 2012, the Shinto Kizuna formed a factional community with Ozawa's new party, Kokumin no Seikatsu ga Daiichi. Shortly before the previously announced resolution of the Shūgiin in November 2012, the Shintō Kizuna joined the Ozawa Party for the House of Representatives election in December 2012 ; The exception was Chairman Uchiyama, who initially became non-party, but then ran for the future party in the House of Representatives election like the other members .

Founding members

• Akira Uchiyama (Chiba 7, 3rd term), party chairman
• Kōichirō Watanabe (Tokyo proportional representation, 2nd term), General Secretary
• Mitsuji Ishida (proportional representation South Kantō, 2nd term)
• Juntarō Toyoda (proportional representation Kinki, 2nd term), parliamentary affairs
• Yasunori Saitō (Miyagi 2, 1st term), Political Research Council
• Atsushi Chūgo (proportional representation South Kantō, 1st term)
• Masae Kobayashi (Tōkai proportional representation, 1st term)
• Nobuaki Miwa (Tōkai proportional representation, 1st term)
• Yoshihiko Watanabe (proportional representation Kinki, 1st term)

Web links

YouTube : Founding press conference of the Shinto Kizuna on January 4, 2012

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DPJ members bolt party over Noda tax plan. Prime minister resolute despite nine lawmakers' resignations. In: The Japan Times . December 29, 2011, accessed January 7, 2012 . 
2. ↑ Nine DPJ defectors tap 3/11 buzzword for new party. In: The Japan Times . January 5, 2012, accessed January 7, 2012 . 
3. ↑ き づ な が 生活 に 合流 内 山 代表 は 無 所属 で 活動 . (No longer available online.) In: MSN / Sankei News. November 15, 2012, archived from the original on November 17, 2012 ; Retrieved November 18, 2012 (Japanese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.