Democratic Socialist Party (Japan)

This article is about the Japanese political party that existed from 1960 to 1994. For other Japanese socialist parties, see Japan Socialist Party (disambiguation).

Democratic Socialist Party
民主社会党
Minshu Shakai-tō
FounderSuehiro Nishio
Founded24 January 1960[1]
Dissolved9 December 1994[1]
Split fromJapan Socialist Party[2]
Preceded byRightist Socialist Party of Japan (factions)
Merged intoNew Frontier Party[1]
Youth wingMinsha Youth
Ideology
Political positionCentre[4][5][6] to centre-left[7][A]
International affiliationSocialist International
Colors  Red
Party flag
^ A: The Democratic Socialist Party was a national conservative party, due to its stances on social issues and national security, and was considered an "extremely conservative" party in Japan.[8] However, its economic policies were of social democracy.[2]

The Democratic Socialist Party (民主社会党, Minshu Shakai-tō, abbreviated 民社党, Minsha-tō) was a political party in Japan from 1960 to 1994.

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  2. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference Taguchi was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ John E. Endicott; William R. Heaton, eds. (1996). The Politics Of East Asia: China, Japan, Korea. Routledge. p. 137. ISBN 9781000304718. Continuing cooperation between the conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), the New Liberal Club (NLC), and the conservative Democratic Socialist Party (DSP), will probably assure conservative rule for some time to come.
  4. ^ James Brown; Guibourg Delamotte; Robert Dujarric, eds. (2021). The Abe Legacy: How Japan Has Been Shaped by Abe Shinzo. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 24. ISBN 9781793643315. A coalition of fragments of the old Japan Socialist Party, the former "centrist" Democratic Socialist Party, and disaffected refugees from the LDP, its mastermind was Ozawa Ichiro, the most formidable of Tanaka Kakuei's disciples.
  5. ^ Michael J Hogan; Michael J. Hogan, eds. (1996). Hiroshima in History and Memory. Cambridge University Press. p. 137. ISBN 9780521566827.
  6. ^ R. Taggart Murphy, ed. (2014). Japan and the Shackles of the Past. Oxford University Press. p. 122. ISBN 9780190213251.
  7. ^ Franklin Henry Hooper; Walter Yust, eds. (1982). Britannica Book of the Year. Encyclopaedia Britannica. p. 1950.
  8. ^ Jon Halliday, ed. (1975). A Political History of Japanese Capitalism. Pantheon Books. p. 238. ISBN 9780394483917. The JCP has rigorously excluded the militant Hansen Seinen linkai, although it has been prepared to collaborate with the Kōmeitō and even the extremely conservative Democratic Socialist Party ( DSP ) on certain issues in the Diet and ...