Democratic Socialist Party (Japan)
Template:Short description Template:About Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox political party The Template:Nihongo was a political party in Japan from 1960 to 1994.
History
The party was established in January 1960 by a breakaway faction of the Japanese Socialist Party.<ref name="Kapur">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="Schreurs2014">Template:Cite book</ref> Led by Suehiro Nishio, it was made up of members of the most moderate wing of the former Rightist Socialist Party of Japan, a moderate faction that had existed as an independent party between 1948 and 1955 before reluctantly merging back together with the Leftist Socialist Party of Japan.<ref name="Kapur"/> Although long-standing ideological differences and factional rivalries played a key role, the proximate cause of the split was internal disagreements over how to conduct the ongoing Anpo protests against revision of the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security Between the United States and Japan, known as Anpo in Japanese, and whether or not to cooperate with the Communist Party of Japan in doing so.<ref name="Kapur"/>
Declassified United States government documents later revealed that covert CIA funding had also helped encourage the founding of this breakaway party.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> CIA support was aimed at moderating and subverting the political opposition to the ruling conservative Liberal Democratic Party, which was the main CIA funded party.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
The DSP was dissolved in 1994 to join the New Frontier Party. In 1996, the Japan Socialist Party was transformed into the Social Democratic Party. Two years later, in 1998, the New Frontier Party dissolved and most former DSP members eventually joined the Democratic Party of Japan.<ref name="Schreurs2014"/> Despite the dissolution of the DSP in 1994, its youth organisation (Minsha Youth) survived until 2003 and was a member of the International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY). After Minsha Youth was dissolved, some of its former members and independent social democrats formed Young Socialists, a new youth organisation which retained full membership in IUSY; however, it was finally dissolved on 8 March 2008 without any successor organisation and abandoned its IUSY membership.Template:Citation needed
The tradition of the DSP is carried on by the Minsha kyōkai (民社協会, Democratic Socialist Group) as a faction within the liberal Democratic Party of Japan, Democratic Party and now centre-right Democratic Party for the People.
Political position and foreign policy
The DSP was rated "moderate",<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> "moderate social-democratic",<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="Taguchi">Template:Cite web</ref> "centrist"<ref name="Centrist 1"/><ref name="Centrist 2"/><ref name="Centrist 3"/>, "centre-left"<ref name="Centre-left 1"/>, and "leftist"<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> by Japanese political standards at the time, but at the same time it was also regarded as a "conservative"<ref name="Conservative 1"/><ref name="Conservative 2"/><ref name="Conservative 3">Template:Cite book</ref> political party. It derived much of its financial and organisational support from the Domei private-sector labour confederation, but unlike other social-democratic political parties in Japan, the party was not hostile to accepting neoliberal policies<ref name="及川(2019)">Template:Cite book</ref> Due to the DSP's syncretic political position, the party's ideology is often referred to as right-wing social democracy (右派社会民主主義).<ref name="RightSoDem">Template:Cite book</ref>
The DSP strongly backed the Japan–United States alliance.<ref name="Taguchi"/> For this reason, the DSP was often called the "right-wing party" in Japan, but because the DSP had a belief in socialist ideals, it was classified as a political "centrist" along with the old Komeito at the time.<ref name="JapanCentre">Template:Cite book</ref> In addition, the DSP was a member of left-wing Socialist International.<ref name="RightSoDem"/><ref name="DochertyLamb2006">Template:Cite book</ref>
Leaders
| No. | Photo | Name
(Birth–death) |
Constituency/title | Term of office | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | ||||
| 1 | File:NISHIO Suehiro.jpg | Suehiro Nishio
(1891–1981) |
Rep for | 24 January 1960 | June 1967 |
| 2 | File:Nishimura Eiichi.png | Eiichi Nishimura
(1904–1971) |
Rep for | June 1967 | 27 April 1971 |
| 3 | File:Kasuga-Ikko-1.jpg | Ikkō Kasuga
(1910–1989) |
Rep for | 27 April 1971 | 28 November 1977 |
| 4 | Ryōsaku Sasaki
(1915–2000) |
Cou for
National district Rep for |
28 November 1977 | 23 April 1985 | |
| 5 | Saburo Tsukamoto
(1927–2020) |
Rep for | 23 April 1985 | 25 February 1989 | |
| 6 | Eiichi Nagasue
(1918–1994) |
Cou for
Rep for |
25 February 1989 | April 1990 | |
| 7 | Keigo Ōuchi
(1930–2016) |
Rep for | April 1990 | 8 June 1994 | |
| 8 | Takashi Yonezawa
(1940–2016) |
Rep for | 8 June 1994 | 9 December 1994 | |
Election results
House of Representatives
House of Councillors
See also
- Blue Labour
- Democratic Socialists '70
- Italian Democratic Socialist Party
- New Italian Socialist Party
- Labor Right
- Seeheimer Kreis
- Social Democratic Party (UK)
- Social Democrats USA
- New Fraternity Party
References
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- Anti-communist organizations in Japan
- CIA activities in Asia
- Defunct political parties in Japan
- Defunct social democratic parties
- Centrist parties in Japan
- Centre-left parties in Asia
- Conservative parties in Japan
- Former member parties of the Socialist International
- Japan Socialist Party breakaway groups
- National conservative parties
- Paternalistic conservatism
- Political parties established in 1960
- Political parties disestablished in 1994
- Social democratic parties in Japan
- Syncretic political parties
- 1960 establishments in Japan
- 1994 disestablishments in Japan