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Japan held a nationwide election to the House of Representatives, the more powerful lower house of the National Diet, on 11 September 2005, about two years before the end of the term taken from the last election in 2003. The then Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi called the election after bills to privatize Japan Post were voted down in the upper house (which cannot be dissolved), despite strong opposition within his own Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) (LDP). The following text needs to be harmonized with text in the article Japan#Government and politics. ... His Imperial Majesty, Emperor Akihito. ... The following is a traditional list of Emperors of Japan. ... Akihito () (born December 23, 1933) is the current Emperor ) of Japan, the 125th person to hold that title, according to the traditional order of succession. ... The Imperial Household Agency is a government agency of Japan in charge of the state matters concerning Japans royal family. ... 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The election handed a landslide victory to Koizumi's LDP, with the party winning 296 seats, the largest share in postwar politics; with its partner, New Komeito, the governing coalition now commands two-thirds majority in the lower house, allowing them to pass legislative bills without the consent of the upper house and to approve amendments to the Constitution, which are then submitted to the upper house and a national referendum. The opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), which advocated a change of government during campaign, suffered a devastating loss, winning only 113 seats against 175 seats it held going into the election. The setback led the DPJ leader Katsuya Okada to resign, and raised a question whether the DPJ can remain an alternative to the LDP in the future elections. The New Clean Government Party (公明党, Kōmeitō) or NKP, often translated as New Komeito Party, is a political party in Japan affiliated with the religious movement Soka Gakkai. ... A two-thirds majority is a common supermajoritarian requirement in elections, especially whenever minority rights can be changed (e. ... The Democratic Party of Japan ) is a liberal party in Japan. ... Katsuya Okada (岡田克也 Okada Katsuya, born July 14, 1953) was the president of the Democratic Party of Japan. ...

The small parties made only small gains or losses, with Koizumi's ally, New Komeito, falling slightly from 34 seats to 31. Of the new parties contesting the election, the New Party Japan fell from three seats to one, while the People's New Party was unchanged at four seats. The Japanese Communist Party held its ground with nine seats, while the Social Democratic Party won seven, a gain of one. It has been suggested that Japan New Party be merged into this article or section. ... The Peoples New Party (国民新党 Kokumin Shintō) is a Japanese political party formed on August 17, 2005 in the aftermath of the defeat of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumis Japan Post privatisation bills which led to a snap election. ... 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 Social Democratic Party (社会民主党 Shakai Minshu-tō, often abbreviated to 社民党 Shamin-tō; also abbreviated as SDP in English) is a political party of Japan. ...

Background

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi dissolved the House of Representatives and called for new elections on 8 August 2005. The move was made in response to the defeat of bills that would have split Japan Post into four private companies over a period of ten years, on which Koizumi had staked the credibility of his reforms. The package was notably unpopular within Koizumi's own Liberal Democratic Party, as retired employees of Japan Post have been strong supporters of the LDP in past elections, and its banking system, the world's largest, has bankrolled expensive public work projects, providing business for the LDP's supporters in the construction industry. Koizumi used the threat of an early election to push the bills through the House of Representatives (the lower house), where it was approved by just 5 votes. The same threat was less effective in the upper chamber, the House of Councillors, which the prime minister does not have the power to dissolve. On August 8, 2005, 30 LDP members of the House of Councillors joined the opposition in voting 'no' or abstaining to block the legislation. Koizumi had announced that a 'no' vote would be considered equivalent to a no confidence vote against his administration, and thus called a snap election for the House of Representatives. Junichiro Koizumi , born January 8, 1942) is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006. ... In parliamentary systems, a dissolution of parliament is the dispersal of a legislature at the call of an election. ... August 8 is the 220th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (221st in leap years), with 145 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Logo Japan Post ) is a public corporation in Japan offering postal and package delivery services, banking services, and life insurance. ... The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), also known as Jiyū Minshutō (自由民主党, or the abbreviation Jimin-tō 自民党) is a liberal conservative political party and the largest political party in Japan, as of 2005. ... Logo Japan Post ) is a public corporation in Japan offering postal and package delivery services, banking services, and life insurance. ... The House of Councillors (参議院; Sangi-in) is the upper house of the Diet of Japan. ... August 8 is the 220th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (221st in leap years), with 145 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A motion of no confidence, also called a motion of non-confidence, a censure motion, a no-confidence motion, or simply a confidence motion, is a parliamentary motion traditionally put before a parliament by the opposition in the hope of defeating or embarrassing a government. ... In the Westminster parliamentary system a snap election is an early election called when the Prime Minister (or Premier) dissolves the legislature mid-way in a governments mandate. ...

The dissolution act itself is relatively without controversy, and is based on Article 7 of the Constitution of Japan, which can be interpreted as saying that the Prime Minister has the power to dissolve the lower house after so advising the Emperor. Many politicians from both the government and the opposition camps, however, had criticized the unusual move of dissolving the lower house following an upper house defeat as both illogical and adversarial. Polls from Asahi Shimbun and others showed that the public supported Koizumi's decision to call an election [1]. The approval rate for Koizumi's Cabinet, in fact, leapt to 46 points when the election was called, and subsequently recovered 50%, a very high rate by Japan's standard. The Constitution of Japan has been the founding legal document of Japan since 1947. ... His Imperial Majesty, Emperor Akihito. ... Asahi-OSAKA office Asahi is a common name in Japan, for other uses see Asahi. ...

Before the dissolution, there was notable dissatisfaction with the decision to dissolve within the LDP, because the LDP and its government partner, the New Clean Government Party, feared losing their majority in the lower house, which chooses the Prime Minister. In the previous lower-house election (2003) and upper-house election (2004), the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) had performed handsomely, while the LDP was barely able to keep its majorities with a reduced number of seats despite the popularity of Koizumi. Election analysts ascribed the poor performance of the LDP to Koizumi's reforms that have eroded its traditional supporters such as farmers, "Mom-Pop" shop owners and construction workers, because the reforms, including deregulation and tax cuts, were tuned to help big global corporations like Toyota. Many in the LDP, among whom was Mori Yoshiro, former prime minister and Koizumi's long-time backer, showed a concern that the widening splits between Koizumi and the rebels within his party would help the competing DPJ candidates win seats in highly contested districts [2]. At the height of the protest, Koizumi even had to dismiss a member of his Cabinet when he refused to sign the Imperial Ordinance for dissolution. There had also been concern that the so-called "political vacuum," created if both the LDP and the DPJ fail to gain a clear majority, would impede the already sluggish recovery of the Japanese economy. The New Clean Government Party (公明党, Kōmeitō) or NKP, often translated as New Komeito Party, is a political party in Japan affiliated with the religious movement Soka Gakkai. ... Incumbent Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi A general election took place in Japan on November 9, 2003. ... The Democratic Party of Japan ) is a liberal party in Japan. ... Toyota redirects here. ... Prime Minister Mori met with George W. Bush in the Oval Office in March 2001. ... Imperial ordinance is an ordinance issued by an Empire. ...

Issues

LDP manifesto; it says that the privatization of the Japan Post is the "Honmaru" (stronghold) of all of reforms.

Prime Minister Koizumi had tried to make the election a referendum on the privatization of Japan Post and reforms that follow, saying that he would step down if the ruling bloc fails to secure a majority. Indeed, the DPJ, which did not have a clear position on the privatization issue previously, was forced to come up with an alternative plan to shrink public savings in Japan Post over years to come. In addition, his personality was featured as prominently as policy in the election, as the electorate were asked to determine whether Koizumi's behavior, variously described as either determined or pugnacious, was acceptable for a Japanese prime minister. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (925x654, 626 KB) This work is copyrighted. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (925x654, 626 KB) This work is copyrighted. ... Matsumoto Castle in Nagano Prefecture is a fine example of a Japanese castle. ... Logo Japan Post ) is a public corporation in Japan offering postal and package delivery services, banking services, and life insurance. ...

The main opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), consisting of former LDP members and liberals, saw the election as a chance to end the LDP's nearly continuous 50-year control of the government and to start reforms of government spending and employees. Many analysts believed that the DPJ would be less beholden to special interests than the entrenched LDP, and a change of government was vital to lead to a true democracy in Japan. On 10 August, Katsuya Okada, the leader of the DPJ, said that he would resign if the DPJ failed to take over the government, paralleling Koizumi's stated intention [3]. The Democratic Party of Japan ) is a liberal party in Japan. ... August 10 is the 222nd day of the year (223rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Katsuya Okada (岡田克也 Okada Katsuya, born July 14, 1953) was the president of the Democratic Party of Japan. ...

In domestic policy both the ruling bloc and the DPJ differed little; both concurred in the need to seek small government in general by cutting public works spending and reducing government employees, in contrast to the views of other small parties. Also, to a degree they did not deny the need for the future increase of the consumption tax and revoke temporary tax cut in order to improve the financial health of the government, which is the worst among the developed countries and nears that in wartime, and to cover the rising social security costs due to Japan's aging and declining population [4]. The DPJ leadership even admitted that, if they won the control of the government, they would not revert Koizumi's four-year-long reforms but redo them with more vigor and thoroughness. The terms limited government and small government are two terms which cover two related meanings. ... A sales tax is a tax on consumption. ... A tax cut is a reduction in the rate of tax charged by a government, for example on personal or corporate income. ...

Outside Japan, there was much speculation about how the election could change foreign relations, since foreign policy is one of the major differences between the LDP and the DPJ. The LDP's Koizumi has been notable for his foreign policies supportive of U.S. President George W. Bush. In particular, the administration has faithfully supported the Iraq War, sending JSDF troops to Iraq in spite of public opposition and the country's pacifist constitution. Moreover, the relationship between Japan and China deteriorated in early 2005, when Koizumi and other conservative Japanese politicians angered China through their visits to the Yasukuni Shrine, amongst other actions. In contrast, Okada, the leader of the main opposition DPJ, said he would pull the troops out of Iraq by December 2005 if he won the government. He also pledged that he would not visit Yasukuni Shrine; this could noticeably improve foreign relations with South Korea and China. However, in Japan, foreign policy issues had drawn almost no attention during the campaign [5]. George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States, inaugurated on January 20, 2001. ... For other uses, see Iraq war (disambiguation). ... JSDF is an abreviation for Japanese Self-Defense Forces. ... The Constitution of Japan has been the founding legal document of Japan since 1947. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... December 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → 31 December 2005 (Saturday) 25-year-old Scottish human rights worker Kate Burton and her parents are freed unharmed in the Gaza Strip by the Palestinian gunmen who kidnapped them two days earlier. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Election

DPJ candidate Nagashima Akihisa (who failed to win his district in Tachikawa, Tokyo) in his campaign bus.

Koizumi maintained, as he pledged before calling the election, a position that he would not give official party endorsement to 37 members of his party who voted against the postal bills; that is, the 37 were not allowed to run as members of the party. To compensate for the disadvantages that non-party members suffer under the current election law, four LDP rebels including Shizuka Kamei announced on 17 August their formation of a new party, the People's New Party, to contest the elections [6]. Four other LDP rebels followed suit days after, forming New Party Japan (not to be confused with the Japan New Party of Morihiro Hosokawa) with a popular Nagano governor Yasuo Tanaka as head [7]. However, most rebels have not joined the new parties, preferring to run as independents so as not to sever their ties with local LDP organizations. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 393 KB) The campaign bus of 長島 昭久 (Nagashima Akihisa), a DPJ candidate for the Japan 2005 Lower House Election place: Tachikawa, Japan photographer = uploader File links The following pages link to this file: Japan general election, 2005 User:Fnfd/Random Pictures... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 393 KB) The campaign bus of 長島 昭久 (Nagashima Akihisa), a DPJ candidate for the Japan 2005 Lower House Election place: Tachikawa, Japan photographer = uploader File links The following pages link to this file: Japan general election, 2005 User:Fnfd/Random Pictures... The Democratic Party of Japan ) is a liberal party in Japan. ... Tachikawa (立川市; -shi) is a city located in western Tokyo, Japan. ... Tokyo , literally Eastern capital)   is the capital of Japan. ... Shizuka Kamei (亀井 静香 Kamei Shizuka) (born November 1, 1936) is a Japanese politician. ... August 17 is the 229th day of the year (230th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... The Peoples New Party (国民新党 Kokumin Shintō) is a Japanese political party formed on August 17, 2005 in the aftermath of the defeat of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumis Japan Post privatisation bills which led to a snap election. ... It has been suggested that Japan New Party be merged into this article or section. ... The Japan New Party (日本新党 Nihon Shintō) is a Japanese political party that existed briefly from 1992 to 1994. ... Morihiro Hosokawa Morihiro Hosokawa (細川 è­·ç…• Hosokawa Morihiro, b. ... Nagano Prefecture (長野県; Nagano-ken) is located on Honshu island, Japan. ... For the astrophysicist, see Yasuo Tanaka (astronomer) Yasuo Tanaka (田中康夫 Tanaka Yasuo) is a Japanese novelist who became governor of Nagano prefecture, Japan in 2000. ...

The formation of the new parties, which were largely seen as being solely needed for the election campaign, took place as Koizumi and his party's leadership were actively recruiting candidates to run in single-member districts against the rebels, and were pressuring local organizations to back the new candidates. New LDP candidates include celebrities, bureaucrats, and local politicians, and several rebels have already exited the race rather than run against their own party. Among the most publicized candidates was a maverick businessman Takafumi Horie who ran as an independent (with tacit LDP backing) against Kamei in Hiroshima District #6, a hot battleground in the last election between the then LDP's Kamei and a DPJ candidate [8]. Takafumi Horie Takafumi Horie (堀江貴文: Horie Takafumi; October 29, 1972–) is a Japanese entrepreneur who won a name for himself as the former CEO of Livedoor (officially: livedoor Co. ... The headquarters of the government of the prefecture are in this building in the city of Hiroshima. ...

Polls and results

Pre-election polls had been consistently showing the LDP's solid lead, especially among independent voters in urban areas like Tokyo and other big cities nationwide where its main opposition the DPJ had had a main support base [9]. Newspaper surveys predicted a big victory for the LDP, which could lead the DPJ, young and short on unity, to disintegrate [10]. Election analysts, however, warned that only few LDP candidates were enjoying comfortable leads, and there was still a large number of undecided voters who went for the DPJ in the last election, thus the election results were far from being set. Tokyo , literally Eastern capital)   is the capital of Japan. ...

The actual election results closely matched what the pre-election polls, which experts believed were unlikely to materialize, had predicted. Election results gave the governing coalition 327 seats, more than a two-thirds majority in the lower house [11] In general, the LDP roughly held its own in rural areas, retaking about half the seats held by rebels, but holding steady or even falling slightly against other parties. On the other hand, in urban areas the LDP had a devastating victory, reducing the DPJ from twelve single member constituencies to one in Tokyo, from nine to two in Osaka and from eight to zero in Kanagawa. The so-called 'assassin' candidates recruited by the LDP to stand against the disendorsed party rebels met with mixed success. Although 20 were elected, only 9 of these managed to defeat rebels in single-seat constituencies, with the remaining 11 elected by proportional representation. 5 'assassins' failed to be elected. Another casualty was the prominent independent candidate Takafumi Horie who was defeated by the LDP rebel Shizuka Kamei, now representing the People's New Party. Tokyo , literally Eastern capital)   is the capital of Japan. ... Osaka ) is the capital of Osaka Prefecture and the third-largest city in Japan, with a population of 2. ... Kanagawa Prefecture ) is a prefecture located in the southern Kanto region of Honshu, Japan. ... Takafumi Horie Takafumi Horie (堀江貴文: Horie Takafumi; October 29, 1972–) is a Japanese entrepreneur who won a name for himself as the former CEO of Livedoor (officially: livedoor Co. ... Shizuka Kamei (亀井 静香 Kamei Shizuka) (born November 1, 1936) is a Japanese politician. ... The Peoples New Party (国民新党 Kokumin Shintō) is a Japanese political party formed on August 17, 2005 in the aftermath of the defeat of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumis Japan Post privatisation bills which led to a snap election. ...

One of the biggest landslides in Japanese politics came as a great surprise to virtually everyone, from politicians in both government and opposition camps to political analysts and the general public to finally Junichiro Koizumi himself, who reiterated after the election that he just asked for a majority. In particular the DPJ's catastrophic defeats in the capital area (namely Tokyo and Kanagawa) shocked the party's members with no clear strategy to reverse the trends in future elections, as well as the LDP leadership who were now concerned that the LDP might have won such a great victory that it could lead to a swing against the party in the future. Analysis of the votes shows that the degree to which the electorate shifted their votes from the LDP to the DPJ was not as considerable as the number of seats exchanged; the LDP won 47.8% of the total votes, up from 43.8%, while the DPJ collected the same percentage (36.4%) as it did in the last lower-house election two years ago. Indeed, the New Clean Government Party even lost three seats despite winning more votes than ever. Political analysts attribute this discrepancy to, in addition to the historically high turnout (67.5%), the switch of the election system a decade ago from the traditional medium-sized constituency system to today's system that combines single-seat constituencies and proportional representation. The irony is that it was Koizumi who was a vocal critic of the switch and the likes of Okada and Ichiro Ozawa, the DPJ's deputy leader, who departed from the LDP to have made the switch in a bid to create the two-party system. Junichiro Koizumi , born January 8, 1942) is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006. ... The New Clean Government Party (公明党, Kōmeitō) or NKP, often translated as New Komeito Party, is a political party in Japan affiliated with the religious movement Soka Gakkai. ... A constituency is any cohesive corporate unit or body bound by shared structures, goals or loyalty. ... Proportional representation (sometimes referred to as full representation, or PR), is an electoral system delivering a close match between the percentage of votes that groups of candidates (grouped by a certain measure) obtain in elections and the percentage of seats they receive (usually in legislative assemblies). ... Irony is a literary or rhetorical device in which there is a gap or incongruity between what a speaker or a writer says, and what is generally understood (either at the time, or in the later context of history). ... Ichiro Ozawa (小沢一郎, Ozawa Ichirō, 1942 - ) is a Japanese politician, formerly the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party and later of the Japan Liberal Party. ... A two-party system is a form of party system where two major political parties dominate the voting in nearly all elections. ...

The national summary of votes and seats by party follow:

Elected seats. [NB: NCGP is another name for the New Komeito Party.]

Seats prior to the election.

• The 18 independent members were all elected in single-member constituencies.
• The number of votes cast are those from the Block constituencies.
• Votes and seats are compared with those won at the last general election two years ago.
• The source was from Adam Carr's Election Archive

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• Mainichi Shimbun (8 August 2005). "Koizumi Dissolves Lower House for Snap Election."
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• Dore, Ronald (8 August 2005). "A Contemporary Dilemma Haunted by History." Times (London), pp. 11.
• Asahi Shimbun (9 August 2005). "Political Parties Scramble to Draw Up Manifestoes ahead of Snap Election Next Month."
• Hiroko Tabuchi (10 August 2005). Japan's leader steps up retaliation against renegade party members
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• Manichi Daily (11 September 2005). "Koizumi leads LDP to landslide."
• openDemocracy (12 September 2005). Japan's first presidential election

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• CNN story (27 August 2005). "Poll: Opposition gains in Japan"
• Bloomberg (26 August 2005). Japan's Koizumi Gains Support With 16 Days to Vote (Update3)
• Manichi Daily (11 September 2005). "2005 Election Site"

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• FairVote: "Japanese Parliamentary Elections 2005"

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