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Revision as of 01:52, 30 May 2010
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Parent topics
- Japan [r]: East Asian country of about 3,000 islands; one of the world's largest economies; population about 125,000,000. [e]
- Politics [r]: The process by which human beings living in communities make decisions and establish obligatory values for their members. [e]
- Government [r]: The system by which a community or nation is controlled and regulated. A government is a person or group of persons who govern a political community or nation. [e]
Subtopics
Parliament
- National Diet of Japan [r]: Bicameral parliament of Japan from the Meiji Restoration to the present time, although significantly modified by the 1947 Constitution; limited role in decision-making for World War Two in the Pacific, especially as Japanese party government declined. [e]
- House of Representatives of Japan [r]: Lower house of the Japanese parliament. [e]
- House of Councillors [r]: Upper house of the Japanese parliament. [e]
Government
- Government of Japan [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Prime Minister of Japan [r]: Head of government of Japan; not an immensely powerful executive, influenced by the monarchy prior to 1945, and subsequently by the complex coalitions of Japanese top-level decisionmaking [e]
Political parties
- Democratic Party of Japan [r]: (民主党 Minshutou) political party formed in 1998 through the merger of parties in opposition to the governing Liberal Democratic Party, including former members of the LDP; won the 2009 Japanese general election and formed a coalition government, but lost heavily to the LDP in 2012. [e]
- Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) [r]: (自由民主党 Jiyuu-Minshutoo) Conservative Japanese political party which has held power near-uninterrupted since 1955. [e]
Politicians
Democratic Party of Japan
- Yukio Hatoyama [r]: (鳩山由紀夫 Hatoyama Yukio) former Prime Minister of Japan and ex-leader of the Democratic Party of Japan (2009-2010); led the party to its first election victory, ousting the Liberal Democratic Party of which he was a former member after 55 years of near-uninterrupted rule (born 1947). [e]
- Ichiro Ozawa [r]: Add brief definition or description
Liberal Democratic Party
Other parties
- People's New Party [r]: Add brief definition or description
- New Komeito [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Social Democratic Party (Japan) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Japanese Communist Party [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Kunio Hatoyama [r]: (鳩山邦夫 Hatoyama Kunio) Japanese politician and younger brother of Yukio Hatoyama, also a politician. [e]
Independents
- Ryuhei Kawada [r]: (川田龍平 Kawada Ryuhei) independent Japanese politician who campaigns on health issues; was involved in legal action against the government and a pharmaceutical company over the 1980s 'tainted blood scandal' that led to his HIV infection (born 1976). [e]
- Parliamentary democracy [r]: A form of representative democracy in which the government is drawn from the members of an elected legislative assembly. [e]