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The Clean Government Party (明党) or CGP, -- known in Japanese as Komeito was a former political party in Japan. It was left-wing, though it was more to the center, and was generally classified as a socialist party, but also was a theocratic force, which wanted to make Soka Gakkai Buddhism the official religion of Japan and eventually, the world. In politics, left-wing, political left, leftism, or simply the left, are terms which refer (with no particular precision) to the segment of the political spectrum typically associated with any of several strains of socialism, social democracy, or liberalism (especially in the American sense of the word), or with opposition...
Center (American English), Centre (Commonwealth English), has a number of meanings. ...
The color red and particularly the red flag are traditional symbols of Socialism. ...
Theocracy is a form of government in which a religion and the government are allied. ...
Soka Gakkai International or SGI is the umbrella organization for affiliate lay organizations in over 190 countries practicing a form of the Buddhism of Nichiren Daishonin. ...
Statues of Buddha such as this, the Tian Tan Buddha statue in Hong Kong, remind followers to practice right living. ...
History
Komeito formed in 1964 which grew out of a minor political party, the Clean Government Political Assembly. At this time, the political party was heavily affiliated with Soka Gakkai, an almost militant sect of Buddhism. It was usually supportive of the Japan Socialist Party, and was against the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), the major ruling party at that time. The Clean Government Political Assembly (CGPA) - otherwise known as the Komei Political Assembly, was a political party in Japan from 1961 to 1964. ...
The Japan Socialist Party (日本社会党) (in Japanese Nihon Shakai-to) was a former Japanese political party with a socialist, left-wing ideology, which functioned between 1945 and 1996. ...
The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), also known as Jiyū Minshutō (自由民主党, more often abbreviated to Jimin-tō 自民党) is the largest Japanese political party as of 2004. ...
Usually seen as a radical party by opponents, it failed to win many seats at the elections, and in 1971, Komeito's leaders officially separated itself from Soka Gakkai, though it and its anticendents to this day still have a strong unofficial position with the religion. Radical is derived from the Latin word radix, which means pertaining to the root(s). In various fields of endeavor, it can mean: in sociology: one who advocates thoroughgoing analysis or change at the root in politics: can refer to a supporter of a revolutionary social movement can refer to...
Komeito did quite well, and in 1993, when the LDP was for the first time declared an opposition party, the Komeito became one of the ruling parties, headed by the liberal Japan Renewal Party, but which also included the Japanese Communist Party, Japan New Party, the New Party Sakigake, and the Japan Socialist Party. Eventually, the latter two parties left the coalition and joined the LDP in an opposition coalition. In 1994, however, when the Japan Socialist Party won the elections, of which the LDP was a junior coalition partner of, the Komeito was again thrown into opposition. In politics, the term liberal refers to: an adherent of the ideology of liberalism —an ideology espousing liberty. ...
The Japan Renewal Party (also JRP)(新生党, Shinseitō) was a Japanese political party that existed in the early 1990s. ...
The Japanese Communist Party (JCP) (日本共産党), in Japanese known as Nihon Kyōsan-tō is a political party of Japan based on communism. ...
The New Party Sakigake (新党さきがけ Shinto Sakigake) was a Japanese political party that broke away from the Liberal Democratic Party on June 22, 1993. ...
The Japan Socialist Party (日本社会党) (in Japanese Nihon Shakai-to) was a former Japanese political party with a socialist, left-wing ideology, which functioned between 1945 and 1996. ...
The Japan Socialist Party (日本社会党) (in Japanese Nihon Shakai-to) was a former Japanese political party with a socialist, left-wing ideology, which functioned between 1945 and 1996. ...
They failed to win seats at the various elections, and, in 1998, the party decided to embark on a more conservative agenda, wanting to make itself a right-wing party. So that year, it merged with the extreme conservative New Peace Party and became known as the New Clean Government Party, a party which supported the ruling party, the Liberal Democrats. Conservatism or political conservatism is any of several historically related political philosophies or political ideologies. ...
In politics, right-wing, the political right, or simply the right, are terms which refer, with no particular precision, to the segment of the political spectrum in opposition to left-wing politics. ...
Conservatism or political conservatism is any of several historically related political philosophies or political ideologies. ...
The New Clean Government Party (公明党) or NKP, -- often translated as New Komeito Party, is a political party in Japan affiliated with the religious movement Soka Gakkai. ...
Liberal Party is the name of dozens of political parties around the world. ...
It is now defunct.
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