New Party Sakigake

New Party Sakigake
新党さきがけ
Shintō Sakigake
FounderMasayoshi Takemura
Founded1993
Dissolved31 October 2004
Split from
Ideology
Political positionCentre[8] to centre-left[9]
Colours
  •   Light blue (official)
  •   Dark blue (customary)

The New Party Sakigake (新党さきがけ, Shintō Sakigake), also known as the New Harbinger Party, was a political party in Japan that broke away from the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on 22 June 1993.[10] The party was created by Masayoshi Takemura. The party was centrist, and had many reformist and even moderate ecological elements. The theoretical leader was Shusei Tanaka. Yukio Hatoyama and Naoto Kan also took part but later moved to the Democratic Party of Japan.[citation needed]

  1. ^ Hoover, William D., ed. (2011). Historical Dictionary of Postwar Japan. Scarecrow Press. p. 211. ISBN 978-0-8108-7539-5.
  2. ^ Scheiner, Ethan (2006). Democracy Without Competition in Japan: Opposition Failure in a One-Party Dominant State. Cambridge University Press. p. 41. ISBN 978-0-521-60969-2. Retrieved 20 September 2021. In 1993, partly inspired by the JNP's initial success, sitting LDP incumbents split form the party to form two new ones, the 35-member Shinsei party, and the smaller and more liberal Sakigake.
  3. ^ Park, Gene (2011). Gaunder, Alisa (ed.). The Routledge Handbook of Japanese Politics. Taylor & Francis. p. 274. ISBN 978-0-203-82987-5. Retrieved 20 September 2021. This problem was difficult for Hashimoto, since his government formed through coalition with two junior partners—the reformist New Party Harbinger (Shintō Sakigake) and the Social Democratic Party (SDP, formerly the Japan Socialist Party/JSP).
  4. ^ Mendl, Wolf (1997). Japan's Asia Policy: Regional Security and Global Interests. Routledge. p. 272. ISBN 0-415-16466-4. Retrieved 20 September 2021. It is more significant that the three new reformist parties which contested the election—Shinseito (Japan Renewal Party), Nihon Shinto (Japan New Party) and Sakigake (Harbinger Party)—were all led by former politicians of the LDP.
  5. ^ Schreurs, Miranda A. (2014). Kopstein, Jeffrey; Lichbach, Mark; Hanson, Stephen E. (eds.). Comparative Politics: Interests, Identities, and Institutions in a Changing Global Order (fourth ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 181. ISBN 978-0-521-13574-0. Retrieved 20 September 2021. New Party Sakigake, a conservative, reformist party with ecologist sympathies that formed in 1993, for example, changed its name to the Sakigake Party in 1998.
  6. ^ Metzger-Court, Sarah; Pascha, Werner (2016). Japan's Socio-Economic Evolution: Continuity and Change. Routledge. p. 178. ISBN 978-1138973732. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
  7. ^ Tanaka, Shusei (12 July 2019). 今も生きる新党さきがけの五つの理念 [The five ideas of the New Party Sakigake that still alive]. webronza.asahi.com (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. p. 3. Retrieved 23 July 2020. 質の高い、実（じつ）のある国づくりを目指すという言うことだ。
  8. ^ Ido, Masanobu (2014). Magara, Hideko (ed.). Economic Crises and Policy Regimes: The Dynamics of Policy Innovation and Paradigmatic Change. Edward Elgar Publishing. p. 247. ISBN 978-1-78254-992-5. OCLC 1036733892. Retrieved 20 September 2021. The original DPJ was established in 1996 after Yukio Hatoyama, of the small centre party Sakigake, called for a new party, which led to the participation of politicians form both Sakigake and the JSP.
  9. ^ The New Party Sakigake has been widely described as centre-left:
  10. ^ Holler, Manfred Joseph (2002). Power and Fairness. Mohr Siebeck. p. 304. ISBN 3-16-147729-4.


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