Kaishintō

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The Kaishintō (Japanese: 改進党, lit. Reformist Party) was a political party in Japan.

History

The party was established on 8 February 1952 as a merger of the National Democratic Party and the Shinsei Club, together with most of the Farmers Cooperative Party's MPs.^[1] In May Mamoru Shigemitsu was elected party president.^[1]

Having started with 69 MPs, the party won 85 seats in the 1952 general elections. However, the 1953 elections saw it lose nine seats; it also won eight seats in the House of Councillors.

In November 1954 it merged with the Japan Liberal Party and a group of MPs from the Liberal Party to form the Japan Democratic Party.

References

1 2 Haruhiro Fukui (1985) Political parties of Asia and the Pacific, Greenwood Press, pp595–596

Political parties in Japan

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Opposition parties	Democratic Communist Initiatives from Osaka Social Democratic People's Life Party & Taro Yamamoto and Friends Japanese Kokoro New Renaissance Party

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seats in regional assemblies

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