People's Life First

People's Life First
Japanese: 国民の生活が第一
PresidentIchirō Ozawa
Secretary-GeneralShōzō Azuma
Councilors leaderTadashi Hirono
Representatives leaderSadatoshi Kumagai
FounderIchirō Ozawa
Founded11 July 2012 (2012-07-11)
Dissolved16 December 2012 (2012-12-16)
Split fromDemocratic Party of Japan
Merged intoTomorrow Party of Japan
IdeologyPopulism[1]
Political positionCentre[citation needed]
Website
http://www.seikatsu1.jp

People's Life First (国民の生活が第一, Kokumin no Seikatsu ga Dai'ichi) was a short-lived political party in Japan. It had 37 out of the 480 seats in the House of Representatives, and 12 in the 242-member House of Councillors.[2] On 28 November 2012, the party merged into Governor of Shiga Yukiko Kada's Japan Future Party based in Ōtsu.[3]

  1. ^ Ikeda, Nobuo (July 13, 2012). "橋下市長はなぜ野田首相をほめたのか". newsweekjapan.jp (in Japanese). Newsweek. Retrieved May 31, 2020.
  2. ^ 国民の生活が第一は「People's Life First」 英語名決まる Archived 2012-07-13 at the Wayback Machine (Sankei Shimbun)
  3. ^ "Shiga's Kada readies party; Ozawa joins"