The politics of Japan are conducted in a framework of a dominant-party bicameral parliamentary representative democratic constitutional monarchy. A hereditary monarch,currently Emperor Naruhito,serves as head of state while the Prime Minister of Japan,currently Shigeru Ishiba since 2024,serves as the elected head of government.
The Liberal Democratic Party,frequently abbreviated to LDP or Jimintō (自民党),is a major conservative and nationalist political party in Japan. Since its foundation in 1955,the LDP has been in power almost continuously—a period called the 1955 System—except between 1993 and 1994,and again from 2009 to 2012.
Masayoshi Ōhira was a Japanese politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1978 until his death in 1980.
The Democratic Party of Japan was a centrist to centre-left,liberal or social-liberal political party in Japan from 1998 to 2016.
Yōhei Kōno is a Japanese politician and a former President of the Liberal Democratic Party. He served as Speaker of the House of Representatives from November 2003 until August 2009,when the LDP lost its majority in the 2009 election. Kōno served as speaker for the longest length since the set up of House of Representatives in 1890.
The Liberal Party was a political party in Japan formed in 1998 by IchirōOzawa and Hirohisa Fujii. It is now defunct,having joined the Democratic Party of Japan in 2003.
The Japan Socialist Party was a major socialist and progressive political party in Japan which existed from 1945 to 1996. The party was the primary representative of the Japanese left and main opponent of the right-wing Liberal Democratic Party for most of its existence.
Higashi-osaka held a by-election on August 6 for two seats for the Osaka Prefectural Assembly. One seat went to Liberal Democratic Party candidate Kōichi Nishino and the second to Japanese Communist Party candidate Makoto Kuchihara.
Yoshiaki Takaki is a former Japanese politician who served in the House of Representatives in the Diet as a member of the Democratic Party of Japan. A native of Shimonoseki,Yamaguchi and high-school graduate he was elected to the Diet for the first time in 1990 after serving in the union executive and local assemblies for 15 years.
Yoshiaki Harada is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party,a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet. Harada represents the 2nd District of Kanagawa prefecture,which includes the cities of Kawasaki,Yokosuka,and Kamakura.
Nagasaki 1st district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It is located in Nagasaki prefecture and covers the city of Nagasaki.
Hiroshima 7th District was a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It was located in Hiroshima and consisted of the city of Fukuyama. As of 2012,377,672 eligible voters were registered in the district. The district was eliminated in the 2022 reapportionments and became the Hiroshima 6th district.
Hokkaidō5th district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan. It consists of Atsubetsu ward and a portion of Shiroishi ward in Hokkaido's city of Sapporo and Ishikari Subprefecture excluding Sapporo and Ishikari city. As of 2009,453,752 eligible voters were registered in the district.
Fumiaki Kobayashi is a Japanese politician representing Hiroshima 7th district in the House of Representatives,the lower house of the National Diet,for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).
Masamune Wada is a Japanese politician serving his first term in the House of Councillors representing the Miyagi at-large district. He was elected to the House in the July 2013 as a member of Your Party. Upon the party's dissolution in November 2014 he joined the Party for Future Generations. He was promoted to Secretary-General of the party in September 2015;the party changed its name to Party for Japanese Kokoro in December 2015. In November 2016 he left the party and joined the Liberal Democratic Party's parliamentary group,but did not officially join the LDP. He joined the LDP on September 24,2017,and was elected as a candidate from the proportional district in the 25th ordinary election for the House of Councillors held in July 2019.
The Democratic Party,was a political party in Japan. It was the largest opposition political party in Japan from 2016 until its marginalization in the House of Representatives in 2017. The party was founded on 27 March 2016 from the merger of the Democratic Party of Japan and the Japan Innovation Party. The majority of the party split on 28 September 2017,before the 2017 general election. Many of its members contesting the election as candidates for the Party of Hope,Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan or as party members without nomination. On 7 May 2018 the DP merged with the Party of Hope to form the Democratic Party For the People.
A by-election for the Hokkaido-5th seat in the Japanese House of Representatives was held on 24 April 2016,coinciding with another by-election in Kyoto. The by-election was triggered by the death of the sitting member,former Speaker of the House and Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura from cerebral infarction in Osaka on 1 June 2015. Machimura,a member of the Liberal Democratic Party,was a long-serving representative for the district,holding the seat almost continuously between 1996 and 2015. The seat has been considered safe for the LDP,with Machimura retaining it on a 14.1% margin in the 2014 general election.
Maki Ikeda is a Japanese politician of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan. She is a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet representing Hokkaido.
The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan is a liberal political party in Japan. It is the primary centre-left party in Japan,and as of 2024 is the second largest party in the National Diet behind the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).
