The
Democratic Socialist Party
(
民主社??
,
Minshu Shakai-t?
, abbreviated
民社?
,
Minsha-t?
)
was a
political party in Japan
from 1960 to 1994.
The party was established in January 1960 by a breakaway faction of the Japanese Socialist Party.
[9]
[10]
Led by
Suehiro Nishio
, it was made up of members of the most moderate wing of the former
Rightist Socialist Party of Japan
, a moderate faction that had existed as an independent party between 1948 and 1955 before reluctantly merging back together with the
Leftist Socialist Party of Japan
.
[9]
Although long-standing ideological differences and factional rivalries played a key role, the proximate cause of the split was internal disagreements over how to conduct the ongoing
Anpo protests
against revision of the
Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security Between the United States and Japan
, known as Anpo in Japanese, and whether or not to cooperate with the
Communist Party of Japan
in doing so.
[9]
Declassified United States government documents later revealed that covert
CIA
funding had also helped encourage the founding of this breakaway party.
[11]
CIA support was aimed at moderating and subverting the political opposition to the ruling
conservative
Liberal Democratic Party
, which was the main CIA funded party.
[12]
[13]
The DSP was dissolved in 1994 to join the
New Frontier Party
. In 1996, the Japan Socialist Party was transformed into the
Social Democratic Party
. Two years later, in 1998, the New Frontier Party dissolved and most former DSP members eventually joined the
Democratic Party of Japan
.
[10]
Despite the dissolution of the DSP in 1994, its youth organisation (Minsha Youth) survived until 2003 and was a member of the
International Union of Socialist Youth
(IUSY). After Minsha Youth was dissolved, some of its former members and independent social democrats formed Young Socialists, a new youth organisation which retained full membership in IUSY; however, it was finally dissolved on 8 March 2008 without any successor organisation and abandoned its IUSY membership.
[
citation needed
]
The tradition of the DSP is carried on by the
Minsha ky?kai
(
民社協?
, Democratic Socialist Group) as a faction within the liberal
Democratic Party of Japan
,
Democratic Party
and now centre-right
Democratic Party for the People
.
Political position and foreign policy
edit
The DSP has claimed that it was an
anti-communist
party that officially advocated
democratic socialism
and had a
pro-American
foreign policy.
[2]
The DSP was rated "
moderate
",
[14]
[15]
[16]
"moderate
social-democratic
",
[17]
[2]
"
centrist
"
[4]
[5]
[6]
and "
centre-left
"
[7]
by Japanese political standards at the time, but at the same time it was also regarded as a "
conservative
"
[3]
[8]
[18]
political party. It derived much of its financial and organisational support from the
Domei
private-sector labour confederation, but unlike other social-democratic political parties in Japan, the party was not hostile to accepting
neoliberal
policies
[19]
Due to the DSP's
syncretic
political position, the party's ideology is often referred to as
right-wing social democracy
(右派社?民主主義).
[20]
The DSP strongly backed the Japan?United States alliance.
[2]
For this reason, the DSP was often called the "right-wing party" in Japan, but because the DSP had a belief in socialist ideals, it was classified as a political "centrist" along with the
old Komeito
at the time.
[21]
In addition, the DSP was a member of left-wing
Socialist International
.
[20]
[22]
House of Representatives
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Election year
|
Candidates
|
No. of seats won
|
Change
|
Status
|
1960
|
105
|
|
|
Opposition
|
1963
|
59
|
|
6
|
Opposition
|
1967
|
60
|
|
7
|
Opposition
|
1969
|
68
|
|
1
|
Opposition
|
1972
|
65
|
|
12
|
Opposition
|
1976
|
51
|
|
10
|
Opposition
|
1979
|
53
|
|
6
|
Opposition
|
1980
|
50
|
|
3
|
Opposition
|
1983
|
54
|
|
6
|
Opposition
|
1986
|
56
|
|
12
|
Opposition
|
1990
|
44
|
|
12
|
Opposition
|
1993
|
28
|
|
1
|
Government
|
House of Councillors
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This year the moderate Democratic Socialist Party has also called for abolition of the one percent ceiling and the setting of a new, more realistic limit.
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The conservative Democratic Socialist Party agreed to further discuss the tax reform, while the Japan Socialist Party, the Japan Communist Party, and the Komeito demanded the dissolution of the lower house before the reform could be introduced.
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