Rikkenseiyukai (立憲政友会) is a political party in Japan founded in 1890 by Count Itō Hirobumi. After the Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895) he became the first real leader of the Rikken-Seiyukai party. Also called the Seiyukai Party, it became the representative party in prewar Japan. Born in Hagi, Yamaguchi, Count Itō Hirobumi (伊藤 博文 Itō Hirobumi 1841–1909, also called Hirofumi/Hakubun) was a Japanese politician and the countrys first Prime Minister (and the 5th, 7th and 10th). ... See: Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895) Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
The Seiyukai Party was the most powerful party in Japan from 1900 to 1921 and it promoted a big government with “active policy” (quite large public spending). Though called "liberal" by members of the party the Seiyukai Party was generally conservative. It often opposed social policies and it supported bureaucratic control and militarism for the purpose of winning votes and especially attacking the rival Minsei Party. The Seiyukai Party governments prevailed from 1924 to 1931. After winning election in late 1931 the Seiyukai Party floated the yen and conducted expansionary macro policies to revive the economy. In politics, the term liberal refers to: an adherent of the ideology of liberalism —an ideology espousing liberty. ... Conservatism or political conservatism is any of several historically related political philosophies or political ideologies. ... A 1,000 yen note, featuring the portrait of Natsume Soseki. ...
After World War II, the Seiyukai reappeared, under the leadership of Kijuro Shidehara, as the Progressive Party, the most conservative major political party in postwar Japan. The Progressives were later absorbed into the business-oriented Liberal Democratic Party. The Seiyukai was traditionally identified with the Mitsui financial interests. Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... Shidehara on a 1931 issue of TIME magazine. ... 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. ... Mitsui (三井) is one of the largest corporation groups in Japan. ...
The diet is composed of the house of representatives, a body of 480 members elected for terms of four years, approximately three fifths of which are chosen by single-seat constituencies and the rest proportionally; and the house of councilors, having 252 members elected for terms of six years.
The Liberal Democratic party (LDP) held the majority of seats in the diet from 1955, when the party was formed, to 1993, when an opposition coalition formed a government; however, it was back in power in 1996.
The Social Democratic party (SDP, formerly the Socialist party), which has opposed the security treaties with the United States, was long the chief LDP rival; in 1994-99, however, the party formed a governing coalition with the LDP.
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