Right Socialist Party of Japan

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Right Socialist Party of Japan
社会党右派
Shakaitō-uha
Founded24 October 1951[1]
Dissolved13 October 1955[2]
Split fromJapan Socialist Party
Merged intoJapan Socialist Party
HeadquartersTokyo, Japan
NewspaperShakai Shimbun
Ideology
Political positionCentre-left[citation needed]
Colors
  •   Sky blue (official)
  •   Orange (customary)

The Right Socialist Party of Japan (社会党右派, Shakaitō-uha) was a political party in Japan that existed between 1951 and 1955.[6]

History[edit]

Following the signing of the San Francisco Peace Treaty in 1951, the Japan Socialist Party dissolved into chaos and internal bickering between moderate reformist socialists and more radical revolutionary socialists over the issue of whether or not to support the Treaty. As a result of the JSP split, some of its members formed a more centrist social-democratic party, while others formed a more radical socialist party. Both groups claimed the name Nihon Shakaitō (日本社会党) but different English translations, and are known as the Left Socialist Party of Japan and the Right Socialist Party of Japan, respectively. On domestic policy, the Right Socialist Party was a centre-left social-democratic party.

The left wing was in chaos between 1951 and 1955. In early 1955, the Left Socialists and the Right Socialists reconciled and merged to reform the JSP, months before the Liberal Democrat Party was created through the merger of the Liberal and Democrat parties. Even though the Right Socialist Party dissolved in 1955 when the JSP reunified, some members of the former Right Socialist Party broke off from the JSP in 1960 and created the Democratic Socialist Party. The Young Socialists, a newly formed youth organisation which retains full membership in the International Union of Socialist Youth, is said to be inherited from the political tradition of the Right Socialist Party.

Election results[edit]

House of Representatives[edit]

Election Leader Votes % Seats +/– Position Status
1952 Jōtarō Kawakami 4,108,274 11.63
57 / 466
 new 3rd Opposition
1953 4,677,833 13.52
66 / 466
 Increase 9 4th Opposition
1955 5,129,594 13.86
67 / 467
 Increase 1 Opposition
Source: [7]

House of Councillors[edit]

Election Leader Constituency Party list Seats Position Status
Votes % Seats Votes % Seats Won Total
1953 Jōtarō Kawakami 2,952,803 10.54
7 / 75
 1,740,423 6.44
3 / 53
10 / 128
26 / 250
 4th Opposition

See also[edit]

References[edit]

Citations[edit]

  1. ^ Kanda 1983, p. 361.
  2. ^ Shibagaki 1983, p. 101.
  3. ^ a b Junnosuke Masumi, ed. (2022). Contemporary Politics in Japan. Univ of California Press. p. 313. ISBN 9780520332782. The first congress of the Right Socialist Party, held in January 1952, the year following the party's formation, raised the banner of "democratic socialism" and declared that the Left Socialist Party, led by a group of procommunists, would degenerate into "the puppet force of the JCP" within a few months.
  4. ^ Journal of Social and Political Ideas in Japan - Volumes 3-4. Center for Japanese Social and Political Studies. 1965. p. 96. Since the right wing of the Socialist Party, in opposing communism, based itself ideologically on democratic socialism, the left wing of the Socialist Party, in order to win in its ideological competition with the Communist Party, has regarded the ideology and actions of the right wing as inimical to party unity . To all appearances, Suehiro Nishio symbolized the thought and behavior of the right wing of the Socialist Party.
  5. ^ a b Shibagaki 1983, p. 97.
  6. ^ Mosk 2007, p. 239.
  7. ^ Shibagaki 1983, p. 86.

Sources[edit]

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