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class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dmeit%C5%8D" title="Kōmeitō – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Kōmeitō" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dmeit%C5%8D" title="Kōmeitō – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Kōmeitō" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dmeit%C5%8D" title="Kōmeitō – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Kōmeitō" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komeito" title="Komeito – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Komeito" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%88%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%AA%D9%88" title="کومیتو – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="کومیتو" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dmeit%C5%8D" title="Kōmeitō – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Kōmeitō" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B3%B5%EB%AA%85%EB%8B%B9" title="공명당 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="공명당" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%9F%E0%A5%8B" title="कोमिटो – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="कोमिटो" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komeito" title="Komeito – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Komeito" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dmeit%C5%8D" title="Kōmeitō – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Kōmeitō" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%A4%D7%9C%D7%92%D7%AA_%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%99%D7%98%D7%95_%D7%94%D7%97%D7%93%D7%A9%D7%94" title="מפלגת קומייטו החדשה – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="מפלגת קומייטו החדשה" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B3meit%C3%B3" title="Kómeitó – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Kómeitó" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li 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href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dmeit%C5%8D" title="Kōmeitō – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Kōmeitō" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dmeit%C5%8D" title="Kōmeitō – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Kōmeitō" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novo_Komeito" title="Novo Komeito – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Novo Komeito" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Komeito_Logo_%28Japan%29.svg/220px-Komeito_Logo_%28Japan%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="75" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Komeito_Logo_%28Japan%29.svg/330px-Komeito_Logo_%28Japan%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Komeito_Logo_%28Japan%29.svg/440px-Komeito_Logo_%28Japan%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="175" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Leader</th><td class="infobox-data agent" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Tetsuo_Saito" title="Tetsuo Saito">Tetsuo Saito</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Deputy Leaders</th><td class="infobox-data agent" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Toshiko_Takeya" title="Toshiko Takeya">Toshiko Takeya</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Kazuyoshi_Akaba" title="Kazuyoshi Akaba">Kazuyoshi Akaba</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Shigeki_Sato_(politician)" title="Shigeki Sato (politician)">Shigeki Sato</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Secretary-General</th><td class="infobox-data agent" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Makoto_Nishida" title="Makoto Nishida">Makoto Nishida</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Councilors Leader</th><td class="infobox-data agent" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Masaaki_Taniai" title="Masaaki Taniai">Masaaki Taniai</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">7 November 1998<span class="noprint">; 26 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1998-11-07</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Merger of</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/K%C5%8Dmeit%C5%8D_(1962%E2%80%931998)" title="Kōmeitō (1962–1998)">Kōmeitō (1962)</a><br /><a href="/w/index.php?title=New_Peace_Party&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="New Peace Party (page does not exist)">New Peace Party</a><br /><a href="/w/index.php?title=Reform_Club_(Japan,_1998)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Reform Club (Japan, 1998) (page does not exist)">Reform Club</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%94%B9%E9%9D%A9%E3%82%AF%E3%83%A9%E3%83%96_(1998%E2%80%932002)" class="extiw" title="ja:改革クラブ (1998–2002)">ja</a>]</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data label" style="line-height:1.3em;">17 Minamimoto-machi, <a href="/wiki/Shinjuku" title="Shinjuku">Shinjuku</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tokyo" title="Tokyo">Tokyo</a> 160-0012</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Newspaper</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><i><a href="/wiki/Komei_Shimbun" title="Komei Shimbun">Komei Shimbun</a></i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Membership <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886047488"><span class="nobold">(2024)</span></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">450,000<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_political_ideologies" title="List of political ideologies">Ideology</a></th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.3em;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist 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href="/wiki/Municipalities_of_Japan" title="Municipalities of Japan">Municipal assembly members</a><sup id="cite_ref-local_assemblies_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-local_assemblies-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">2,667 / 29,135</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #F95580; color:inherit; width: 9%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="line-height: 0.8em;">Website</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><b>Japanese</b></li><li><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" 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K. Chesterton">Chesterton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oswald_Spengler" title="Oswald Spengler">Spengler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ze%27ev_Jabotinsky" title="Ze'ev Jabotinsky">Jabotinsky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ivan_Ilyin" title="Ivan Ilyin">Ilyin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vinayak_Damodar_Savarkar" title="Vinayak Damodar Savarkar">Savarkar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carl_Schmitt" title="Carl Schmitt">Schmitt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/T._S._Eliot" title="T. S. Eliot">Eliot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Mannheim" title="Karl Mannheim">Mannheim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernst_J%C3%BCnger" title="Ernst Jünger">Jünger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Julius_Evola" title="Julius Evola">Evola</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leo_Strauss" title="Leo Strauss">Strauss</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_R%C3%B6pke" title="Wilhelm Röpke">Röpke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hans-Georg_Gadamer" title="Hans-Georg Gadamer">Gadamer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gilberto_Freyre" title="Gilberto Freyre">Freyre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eric_Voegelin" title="Eric Voegelin">Voegelin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Oakeshott" title="Michael Oakeshott">Oakeshott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Burnham" title="James Burnham">Burnham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marcel_Lefebvre" title="Marcel Lefebvre">Lefebvre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sayyid_Qutb" title="Sayyid Qutb">Qutb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erik_von_Kuehnelt-Leddihn" title="Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn">Kuehnelt-Leddihn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicol%C3%A1s_G%C3%B3mez_D%C3%A1vila" title="Nicolás Gómez Dávila">Gómez Dávila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russell_Kirk" title="Russell Kirk">Kirk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn" title="Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn">Solzhenitsyn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reinhart_Koselleck" title="Reinhart Koselleck">Koselleck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yukio_Mishima" title="Yukio Mishima">Mishima</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_F._Buckley_Jr." title="William F. Buckley Jr.">Buckley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Sowell" title="Thomas Sowell">Sowell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harvey_Mansfield" title="Harvey Mansfield">Mansfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roger_Scruton" title="Roger Scruton">Scruton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aleksandr_Dugin" title="Aleksandr Dugin">Dugin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jordan_Peterson" title="Jordan Peterson">Peterson</a></li></ul> </div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="border-top:1px solid #36c; text-align:center;color: var(--color-base)">Politicians</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Adams" title="John Adams">Adams</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Pitt_the_Younger" title="William Pitt the Younger">Pitt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Canning" title="George Canning">Canning</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Klemens_von_Metternich" title="Klemens von Metternich">Metternich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Disraeli" title="Benjamin Disraeli">Disraeli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Otto_von_Bismarck" title="Otto von Bismarck">Bismarck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Gascoyne-Cecil,_3rd_Marquess_of_Salisbury" title="Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury">Salisbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_Dmowski" title="Roman Dmowski">Dmowski</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carl_Gustaf_Emil_Mannerheim" title="Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim">Mannerheim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stanley_Baldwin" title="Stanley Baldwin">Baldwin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Maurras" title="Charles Maurras">Maurras</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mikl%C3%B3s_Horthy" title="Miklós Horthy">Horthy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ioannis_Metaxas" title="Ioannis Metaxas">Metaxas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Churchill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Konrad_Adenauer" title="Konrad Adenauer">Adenauer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alcide_De_Gasperi" title="Alcide De Gasperi">De Gasperi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chiang_Kai-shek" title="Chiang Kai-shek">Chiang</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_de_Oliveira_Salazar" title="António de Oliveira Salazar">Salazar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_de_Gaulle" title="Charles de Gaulle">De Gaulle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Engelbert_Dollfuss" title="Engelbert Dollfuss">Dollfuss</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francisco_Franco" title="Francisco Franco">Franco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ruhollah_Khomeini" title="Ruhollah Khomeini">Khomeini</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Reagan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enoch_Powell" title="Enoch Powell">Powell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Augusto_Pinochet" title="Augusto Pinochet">Pinochet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ferdinand_Marcos" title="Ferdinand Marcos">Marcos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Park_Chung_Hee" title="Park Chung Hee">Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ian_Smith" title="Ian Smith">Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mohammad_Reza_Pahlavi" title="Mohammad Reza Pahlavi">Reza Shah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suharto" title="Suharto">Suharto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lee_Kuan_Yew" title="Lee Kuan Yew">Lee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muhammad_Zia-ul-Haq" class="mw-redirect" title="Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq">Zia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atal_Bihari_Vajpayee" title="Atal Bihari Vajpayee">Vajpayee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher" title="Margaret Thatcher">Thatcher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helmut_Kohl" title="Helmut Kohl">Kohl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alberto_Fujimori" title="Alberto Fujimori">Fujimori</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Trump</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jaros%C5%82aw_Kaczy%C5%84ski" title="Jarosław Kaczyński">Kaczyński</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Netanyahu" title="Benjamin Netanyahu">Netanyahu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Narendra_Modi" title="Narendra Modi">Modi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Putin" title="Vladimir Putin">Putin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shinzo_Abe" title="Shinzo Abe">Abe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jair_Bolsonaro" title="Jair Bolsonaro">Bolsonaro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Viktor_Orb%C3%A1n" title="Viktor Orbán">Orbán</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Giorgia_Meloni" title="Giorgia Meloni">Meloni</a></li></ul> </div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="border-top:1px solid #36c; text-align:center;color: var(--color-base)">Religion</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Christian_democracy" title="Christian democracy">Christian democracy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_right" title="Christian right">Christian right</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Confucianism" title="Confucianism">Confucianism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hindutva" title="Hindutva">Hindutva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamism" title="Islamism">Islamism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jewish_conservatism" title="Jewish conservatism">Jewish conservatism</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Religious_Zionism" title="Religious Zionism">Religious Zionism</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theravada" title="Theravada">Theravada Buddhism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Traditionalist_Catholicism" title="Traditionalist Catholicism">Traditionalist Catholicism</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Integralism" title="Integralism">Integralism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ultramontanism" title="Ultramontanism">Ultramontanism</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Traditionalist_School_(perennialism)" class="mw-redirect" title="Traditionalist School (perennialism)">Traditionalist School</a></li></ul> </div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="border-top:1px solid #36c; text-align:center;color: var(--color-base)">Personal variants</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Berlusconism" title="Berlusconism">Berlusconism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nayib_Bukele#Political_views" title="Nayib Bukele">Bukelism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Political_positions_of_David_Cameron" title="Political positions of David Cameron">Cameronism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chiangism" title="Chiangism">Chiangism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erdo%C4%9Fanism" title="Erdoğanism">Erdoğanism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francoism" class="mw-redirect" title="Francoism">Francoism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fujimorism" title="Fujimorism">Fujimorism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaullism" title="Gaullism">Gaullism</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Janismo" title="Janismo">Janismo</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Maurrassisme" title="Maurrassisme">Maurrassisme</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mellismo" title="Mellismo">Mellismo</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Metaxism" title="Metaxism">Metaxism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Powellism" title="Powellism">Powellism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pinochetism" title="Pinochetism">Pinochetism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Putinism" title="Putinism">Putinism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qutbism" title="Qutbism">Qutbism</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Khomeinism" title="Khomeinism">Khomeinism</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reaganism" class="mw-redirect" title="Reaganism">Reaganism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sarkozysm" title="Sarkozysm">Sarkozysm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thatcherism" title="Thatcherism">Thatcherism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trumpism" title="Trumpism">Trumpism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ziaism" title="Ziaism">Ziaism</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="border-top:1px solid #36c; 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Since 2012, it has served in government as the junior coalition partner of the nationalist and conservative governments led by the <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democratic_Party_(Japan)" title="Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)">Liberal Democratic Party</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Tetsuo_Saito" title="Tetsuo Saito">Tetsuo Saito</a> has been the president of the party since 9 November 2024. Komeito currently has 24 elected Deputies in the Japanese <a href="/wiki/House_of_Representatives_(Japan)" title="House of Representatives (Japan)">House of Representatives</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Komeito&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/K%C5%8Dmeit%C5%8D_(1962%E2%80%931998)" title="Kōmeitō (1962–1998)">Kōmeitō (1962–1998)</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Opposition_before_1993">Opposition before 1993</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Komeito&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Opposition before 1993"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Komeito began as the Political Federation for Clean Government in 1961, but held its inaugural convention as Komeito on 17 November 1964.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The three characters 公明党 have the approximate meanings of "public/government" (公 kō), "light/brightness" (明 mei), and "political party" (党 tō). The combination "kōmei" (公明) is usually taken to mean "justice".<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs additional references to reliable sources. (October 2024)">additional citation(s) needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Komeito's predecessor party, <a href="/wiki/K%C5%8Dmeit%C5%8D_(1962%E2%80%9398)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kōmeitō (1962–98)">Kōmeitō</a>, was formed in 1962, but it had begun in 1954 as the Kōmei Political League. It lasted until it merged with the NKP in 1998.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1957, a group of Young Men's Division members campaigning for a Soka Gakkai candidate in an Osaka Upper House by-election were arrested for distributing money, cigarettes, and caramels at supporters' residences, in violation of election law, and on July 3 of that year, at the beginning of an event memorialized as the "Osaka Incident," <a href="/wiki/Daisaku_Ikeda" title="Daisaku Ikeda">Daisaku Ikeda</a> was arrested in Osaka. He was taken into custody in his capacity as Soka Gakkai's Youth Division Chief of Staff for overseeing activities that constituted violations of election law. He spent two weeks in jail and appeared in court forty-eight times before he was cleared of all charges in January 1962.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1968, fourteen of its members were convicted of forging absentee ballots in Shinjuku, and eight were sentenced to prison for <a href="/wiki/Electoral_fraud" title="Electoral fraud">electoral fraud</a>. In the 1960s it was widely criticized for violating the <a href="/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state" title="Separation of church and state">separation of church and state</a>, and in February 1970 all three major Japanese newspapers printed editorials demanding that the party reorganize. It eventually broke apart based on promises to segregate from Soka Gakkai.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the 1980s, <i><a href="/wiki/Shimbun_Akahata" title="Shimbun Akahata">Shimbun Akahata</a></i> discovered that many Soka Gakkai members were rewarding acquaintances with presents in return for Komeito votes and that <a href="/wiki/Okinawa_Prefecture" title="Okinawa Prefecture">Okinawa</a> residents had changed their addresses to elect Komeito politicians.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Anti-LDP_coalition_government:_1993–1994"><span id="Anti-LDP_coalition_government:_1993.E2.80.931994"></span>Anti-LDP coalition government: 1993–1994</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Komeito&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Anti-LDP coalition government: 1993–1994"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Kōmeitō joined the Hosokawa and Hata anti-LDP coalition cabinets in 1993 and 1994. After the collapse of the anti-LDP and anti-<a href="/wiki/Japanese_Communist_Party" title="Japanese Communist Party">JCP</a> governments (<span class="t_nihongo_kanji"><span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">非自民・非共産連立政権</span></span></span>) and the electoral and campaign finance reforms of 1994, the Kōmeitō split in December 1994: The "New Kōmei Party"<span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">公明新党</span></span>, <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">Kōmei Shintō</i></span>)</span> joined the <a href="/wiki/New_Frontier_Party_(Japan)" title="New Frontier Party (Japan)">New Frontier Party</a> (NFP) a few days later in an attempt to unify the splintered opposition.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The other group, Kōmei<span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">公明</span></span>)</span>, continued to exist as a separate party. After the dissolution of the NFP in December 1997, former Kōmeitō members from the NFP founded two new groups: the "New Peace Party"<span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">新党平和</span></span>, <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">Shintō Heiwa</i></span>)</span> and the "Dawn Club"<span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">黎明クラブ</span></span>, <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">Reimei Club</i></span>)</span> in the House of Councillors, but some ex-Kōmeitō politicians such as Shōzō Azuma followed Ichirō Ozawa into the <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(Japan,_1998)" title="Liberal Party (Japan, 1998)">Liberal Party</a>. The Reimei Club merged into the New Peace Party a few weeks later in January 1998. Finally, in November 1998, Kōmei and New Peace Party merged to re-establish Kōmeitō (referred to in English now as "New Komeito" – the party's name is just <i>Kōmeitō</i> as before the 1994 split). </p><p>The <i><a href="/wiki/Japan_Echo" title="Japan Echo">Japan Echo</a></i> alleged in 1999 that Soka Gakkai distributed fliers to local branches describing how to abuse the <i><a href="/wiki/J%C5%ABminhy%C5%8D" title="Jūminhyō">jūminhyō</a></i> residence registration system in order to generate a large number of votes for Komeito candidates in specific districts.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Coalition_with_the_Liberal_Democratic_Party:_1999–2009,_2012–present"><span id="Coalition_with_the_Liberal_Democratic_Party:_1999.E2.80.932009.2C_2012.E2.80.93present"></span>Coalition with the Liberal Democratic Party: 1999–2009, 2012–present</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Komeito&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Coalition with the Liberal Democratic Party: 1999–2009, 2012–present"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Komeit%C3%B4_activists_canvassing_in_front_of_Himezi_castle.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Komeit%C3%B4_activists_canvassing_in_front_of_Himezi_castle.jpg/220px-Komeit%C3%B4_activists_canvassing_in_front_of_Himezi_castle.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Komeit%C3%B4_activists_canvassing_in_front_of_Himezi_castle.jpg/330px-Komeit%C3%B4_activists_canvassing_in_front_of_Himezi_castle.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Komeit%C3%B4_activists_canvassing_in_front_of_Himezi_castle.jpg/440px-Komeit%C3%B4_activists_canvassing_in_front_of_Himezi_castle.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3072" data-file-height="2304" /></a><figcaption>Komeito activists canvassing in front of <a href="/wiki/Himeji_Castle" title="Himeji Castle">Himeji Castle</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The current conservative, more moderate, and centrist party was formed in 1998, in a merger of Kōmei and the New Peace Party. Since then it has joined coalition with the ruling <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democratic_Party_(Japan)" title="Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)">Liberal Democratic Party</a> (LDP), which needs Komeito to maintain a majority in the Diet (especially in the House of Councillors which the LDP lost majority since 1989), and did well in the 2000 and 2001 parliamentary elections. </p><p>The LDP-Liberal coalition expanded to include the New Komeito Party in October 1999.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> New Komeito has been (and continues to be) a coalition partner in the Government of Japan since 1999 (excluding 2009–2011 when the Democratic Party of Japan was in power). As such, New Komeito supported a (temporary) change to Japan's "<a href="/wiki/Article_9_of_the_Japanese_Constitution" title="Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution">no-war constitution</a>" in order for Japan to <a href="/wiki/Japanese_Iraq_Reconstruction_and_Support_Group" title="Japanese Iraq Reconstruction and Support Group">deploy troops</a> in support of the <a href="/wiki/Iraq_War" title="Iraq War">2003 invasion of Iraq</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/2003_Japanese_general_election" title="2003 Japanese general election">2003 Japanese general election</a> and <a href="/wiki/2004_Japanese_House_of_Councillors_election" title="2004 Japanese House of Councillors election">2004 Japanese House of Councillors election</a>, the NKP did well, thanks to an extremely committed and well-organized voter base coming from Soka Gakkai. The party shares its support base with the LDP, made up of white-collar bureaucrats and rural populations, but also gained support from religious leaders. However, on 27 July 2005, NKP's Secretary-General said that his party would consider forming a coalition government with the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_of_Japan" title="Democratic Party of Japan">Democratic Party of Japan</a> (DPJ) if the DPJ gained a majority in the House of Representatives. On 8 August 2005, then-<a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Japan" title="Prime Minister of Japan">Prime Minister</a> and the president of LDP <a href="/wiki/Junichiro_Koizumi" title="Junichiro Koizumi">Junichiro Koizumi</a> dissolved the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Representatives_of_Japan" class="mw-redirect" title="House of Representatives of Japan">Lower House</a> and called for a general election, due to the rejection on some of the members of LDP for efforts to privatize <a href="/wiki/Japan_Post" title="Japan Post">Japan Post</a>. The incumbent LDP-New Komeito coalition won a large majority in the <a href="/wiki/2005_Japanese_general_election" title="2005 Japanese general election">2005 general election</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Natsuo_Yamaguchi" title="Natsuo Yamaguchi">Natsuo Yamaguchi</a> became the party's leader on 8 September 2009 after the party and their coalition partner LDP suffered a major defeat in the <a href="/wiki/2009_Japanese_general_election" title="2009 Japanese general election">2009 general election</a>, become part of the opposition for the first time since 1999. New Komeito lost ten seats, including that of party leader <a href="/wiki/Akihiro_Ota" title="Akihiro Ota">Akihiro Ota</a> and general secretary <a href="/wiki/Kazuo_Kitagawa" title="Kazuo Kitagawa">Kazuo Kitagawa</a>. On 8 September 2009, Yamaguchi replaced Ota as president of New Komeito.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/2012_Japanese_general_election" title="2012 Japanese general election">general election</a> on 16 December 2012, the LDP/Komeito coalition secured a <a href="/wiki/Supermajority" title="Supermajority">supermajority</a> and came back into government. The former party chief Akihiro Ota (Ohta) is currently Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The party also gained seats in the <a href="/wiki/2014_Japanese_general_election" title="2014 Japanese general election">general election in 2014</a>. In September 2014 the party changed its English name from New Komeito back to Komeito.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In July 2015, Komeito backed Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Shinz%C5%8D_Abe" class="mw-redirect" title="Shinzō Abe">Shinzō Abe</a>'s push to <a href="/wiki/Constitutional_reform_in_Japan" title="Constitutional reform in Japan">revise the Constitution</a> in order to "give Japan's military limited powers to fight in foreign conflicts for the first time since <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>".<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Attribution_needed" title="Wikipedia:Attribution needed"><span title="This sentence may contain perspectives and opinions without stating whose they are. (January 2018)">attribution needed</span></a></i>]</sup> This legislation, supported by the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>, would allow the "<a href="/wiki/Japan_Self-Defense_Forces" title="Japan Self-Defense Forces">Self-Defense Forces</a> to cooperate more closely with the U.S. by providing logistical support and, in certain circumstances, armed backup in international conflicts" and "complements guidelines in a bilateral agreement governing how Japanese and <a href="/wiki/United_States_Armed_Forces" title="United States Armed Forces">United States forces</a> work together, which was signed by the two nations" earlier in 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-reference_to_NY_times_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reference_to_NY_times-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On March 11, 2019, a project team of Komeito submitted proposals to Foreign Minister <a href="/wiki/Taro_Kono" title="Taro Kono">Taro Kono</a> for an international agreement to regulate <a href="/wiki/Lethal_autonomous_weapon" title="Lethal autonomous weapon">robotic weapons</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> calling on Japan to build global consensus for a "political declaration or a code of conduct, within the framework of the <a href="/wiki/Convention_on_Certain_Conventional_Weapons" title="Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons">Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Ideology_and_policies">Ideology and policies</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Komeito&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Ideology and policies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A self-proclaimed party of "humanitarian socialism,"<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Komeito's declared mission is to pioneer "people-centered politics, a politics based on a <a href="/wiki/Humanitarianism" title="Humanitarianism">humanitarianism</a>, that treats human life with the utmost respect and care".<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 24 April 2019, joint task force efforts with its coalition partner<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> resulted in the passing of a bill mandating reparations and having the coalition government issue a formal apology to sterilization victims of the defunct <a href="/wiki/Eugenics_in_Japan#After_1945" title="Eugenics in Japan">Eugenic Protection Act</a>, thus to advance human rights awareness in the wake of lawsuits<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> related to the history of <a href="/wiki/Eugenics_in_Japan" title="Eugenics in Japan">eugenics in Japan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Religious scholar and political analyst Masaru Satō explains that in postwar Japan there were two major parties, the <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democratic_Party_(Japan)" title="Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)">Liberal Democratic Party</a> representing financial interests and large corporations and the <a href="/wiki/Japan_Socialist_Party" title="Japan Socialist Party">Japan Socialist Party</a> largely advocating the interests of trade unions and the working class. There was no single party that represented people who belonged to neither, such as shop owners and housewives, among others. Komeito was thus able to capture the support of this constituency.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Despite the party's conservative ideology, it supports the protection and expansion of <a href="/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Japan" title="LGBTQ rights in Japan">LGBT rights</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Relationship_with_Soka_Gakkai">Relationship with <i>Soka Gakkai</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Komeito&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Relationship with Soka Gakkai"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Komeito regards the <a href="/wiki/Soka_Gakkai" title="Soka Gakkai">Soka Gakkai</a> as a "major electoral constituency",<sup id="cite_ref-about_view_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-about_view-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> having formally separated from the religious group and revised both its platform and regulations in 1970 to reflect a "secular orientation".<sup id="cite_ref-Aruga_2000_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Aruga_2000-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 117">: 117 </span></sup> Observers continue to describe Komeito as the Soka Gakkai's "political arm",<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> however, and critics contend the relationship violates the separation of religion and politics enshrined in Article 20 of the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Japan" title="Constitution of Japan">Japanese Constitution</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Okuyama_2010_63-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Okuyama_2010-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The leadership and financing of the two groups are currently said to be independent.<sup id="cite_ref-Aruga_2000_58-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Aruga_2000-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 123–27">: 123–27 </span></sup> Both groups report having occasional liaison meetings, characterizing them as informational and "open to the media".<sup id="cite_ref-about_view_57-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-about_view-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Numerous Japanese religious groups have established political parties in Japan, but statistics scholar Petter Lindgren states that "None have, however, been more successful than Soka Gakkai."<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Domestic_policy">Domestic policy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Komeito&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Domestic policy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Domestically, the party proposals include reduction of the central government and <a href="/wiki/Bureaucracy" title="Bureaucracy">bureaucracy</a>, increased transparency in public affairs, and increased local (<a href="/wiki/Prefecture" title="Prefecture">prefectural</a>) autonomy with the <a href="/wiki/Private_sector" title="Private sector">private sector</a> playing an increased role. Komeito also supports reducing the consumption tax rate, reducing school fees and offering child allowances.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_66-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In accordance with its public affairs transparency platform, it was reported that since September 2016, the Komeito conducted independent analyses for possible environmental contamination of the proposed <a href="/wiki/Toyosu" title="Toyosu">Toyosu</a> market site.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Komeito officially raised its environmental concerns later regarding Toyosu market during the 5 October 2016 Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly Session. In response, the newly appointed Tokyo Governor, <a href="/wiki/Yuriko_Koike" title="Yuriko Koike">Yuriko Koike</a>, cited possible disciplinary action towards those responsible for the Toyosu project.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Security_policy">Security policy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Komeito&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Security policy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In contrast with the LDP, Komeito has generally been more cautious about efforts to expand the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF).<sup id="cite_ref-:1_69-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At its founding, the party adhered to absolute pacifism, rejecting both the constitutionality of the JSDF and the military alliance with the US.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_66-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later softening its views, Komeito later backed LDP proposals such as a 2004 vote to dispatch the JSDF to support allied operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, and prime minister's <a href="/wiki/Shinzo_Abe" title="Shinzo Abe">Shinzo Abe</a>'s revision of the security laws to expand military powers in July 2015,<sup id="cite_ref-reference_to_NY_times_39-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reference_to_NY_times-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> although it did manage to moderate the policy on the latter.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_66-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Foreign_policy">Foreign policy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Komeito&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Foreign policy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>With regard to foreign policy, the Komeito wishes to eliminate <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_arms" class="mw-redirect" title="Nuclear arms">nuclear arms</a> and Japanese involvement in <a href="/wiki/War" title="War">armed conflict</a> in general. Komeito supports maintaining the <a href="/wiki/U.S.-Japan_Alliance" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S.-Japan Alliance">Japan's military alliance with the United States</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_69-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The party promotes closer relations between <a href="/wiki/China%E2%80%93Japan_relations" title="China–Japan relations">China and Japan</a>. According to a <i><a href="/wiki/Foreign_Policy" title="Foreign Policy">Foreign Policy</a></i> article in 2021, "Of all parties in the Diet, Komeito enjoys the strongest and most stable relationship with China."<sup id="cite_ref-:0_66-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Komeito's then leader <a href="/wiki/Yoshikatsu_Takeiri" title="Yoshikatsu Takeiri">Yoshikatsu Takeiri</a>'s held negotiations Chinese Premier <a href="/wiki/Zhou_Enlai" title="Zhou Enlai">Zhou Enlai</a> in the 1970s played a critical role in the eventual normalization of relations between the People's Republic of China and Japan in 1972.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_66-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The party has advocated for friendlier policies towards China, and has maintained communications with the country even during moments when the relationships between the two countries have been strained.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_66-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The party reportedly advocates for improved ties with China and South Korea in light of <a href="/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes" title="Japanese war crimes">Japan's historical war crimes</a> in both territories. In 2013, the party's chief representative Natsuo Yamaguchi praised Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's decision not to visit <a href="/wiki/Yasukuni_Shrine" title="Yasukuni Shrine">Yasukuni Shrine</a>, where Japanese war criminals are enshrined.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On the <a href="/wiki/Comfort_women" title="Comfort women">comfort women</a> issue, in 2016 the party reportedly advocated for removing <a href="/wiki/Yoshitaka_Sakurada" title="Yoshitaka Sakurada">Yoshitaka Sakurada</a> from a leadership position after Sakurada denied that the women were forced to work.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Party_organ">Party organ</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Komeito&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Party organ"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The party organ of Komeito is the <i><a href="/wiki/Komei_Shimbun" title="Komei Shimbun">Komei Shinbun</a></i>. It is published by the Komei Organ Paper Committee,<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and has also published a regional Hokkaido edition in the past.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Leadership">Leadership</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Komeito&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Leadership"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Chief_Representative_of_Komeito" title="Chief Representative of Komeito">Chief Representative of Komeito</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Current_leadership">Current leadership</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Komeito&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Current leadership"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Leadership as of 9 November 2024:<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Position </th> <th scope="col">Name </th></tr> <tr> <th rowspan="2">Permanent Advisors </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Natsuo_Yamaguchi" title="Natsuo Yamaguchi">Natsuo Yamaguchi</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Keiichi_Ishii" title="Keiichi Ishii">Keiichi Ishii</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>Leader </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Tetsuo_Saito" title="Tetsuo Saito">Tetsuo Saito</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th rowspan="3">Deputy Leaders </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Toshiko_Takeya" title="Toshiko Takeya">Toshiko Takeya</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kazuyoshi_Akaba" title="Kazuyoshi Akaba">Kazuyoshi Akaba</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Shigeki_Sato_(politician)" title="Shigeki Sato (politician)">Shigeki Sato</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>Secretary General </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Makoto_Nishida" title="Makoto Nishida">Makoto Nishida</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>Chairman of the Central Executive Committee </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Kazuyoshi_Akaba" title="Kazuyoshi Akaba">Kazuyoshi Akaba</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>Chairman of the Policy Research Council </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Mitsunari_Okamoto" title="Mitsunari Okamoto">Mitsunari Okamoto</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>Chairman of the Caucus in the House of Councillors </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Masaaki_Taniai" title="Masaaki Taniai">Masaaki Taniai</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>Election Strategy Committee Chairman </th> <td>Nobuhiro Miura </td></tr> <tr> <th>Diet Affairs Committee Chairman </th> <td>Hidemichi Satō </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Election_results">Election results</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Komeito&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Election results"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="House_of_Representatives">House of Representatives</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Komeito&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: House of Representatives"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <caption><a href="/wiki/House_of_Representatives_(Japan)" title="House of Representatives (Japan)">House of Representatives</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th rowspan="2">Election </th> <th rowspan="2">Leader </th> <th rowspan="2">No. of<br />candidates </th> <th colspan="3">Seats </th> <th rowspan="2">Position </th> <th colspan="2">Constituency votes </th> <th colspan="2">PR Block votes </th> <th rowspan="2">Status </th></tr> <tr> <th>No. </th> <th>± </th> <th>Share </th> <th>No. </th> <th>Share </th> <th>No. </th> <th>Share </th></tr> <tr> <td colspan="12"><b>Komei era</b> </td></tr> <tr> <th rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/1996_Japanese_general_election" title="1996 Japanese general election">1996</a> </th> <td rowspan="2"><i>Komei faction</i> </td> <td rowspan="2">51 </td> <td rowspan="2"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">42 / 511</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #F95580; color:inherit; width: 8%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td rowspan="2"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 9 </td> <td rowspan="2">8.2% </td> <td rowspan="2" bgcolor="lightgrey"> </td> <td rowspan="2" colspan="4"><i>see <a href="/wiki/New_Frontier_Party_(Japan)" title="New Frontier Party (Japan)">New Frontier Party</a></i> </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-no2">Opposition<br />(until 1998) </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;" class="table-yes2">Governing coalition<br />(since 1998) </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="12"><b>New Komeito era</b> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/2000_Japanese_general_election" title="2000 Japanese general election">2000</a> </th> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Takenori_Kanzaki" title="Takenori Kanzaki">Takenori Kanzaki</a> </td> <td>74 </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">31 / 480</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #0851A3; color:inherit; width: 6%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 11 </td> <td>6.4% </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 3rd </td> <td>1,231,753 </td> <td>2.02% </td> <td>7,762,032 </td> <td>12.97% </td> <td style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;" class="table-yes2">Governing coalition </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/2003_Japanese_general_election" title="2003 Japanese general election">2003</a> </th> <td>55 </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">34 / 480</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #0851A3; color:inherit; width: 7%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 3 </td> <td>7.0% </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Steady"><img alt="Steady" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/11px-Steady2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/17px-Steady2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/22px-Steady2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 3rd </td> <td>886,507 </td> <td>1.49% </td> <td>8,733,444 </td> <td>14.78% </td> <td style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;" class="table-yes2">Governing coalition </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/2005_Japanese_general_election" title="2005 Japanese general election">2005</a> </th> <td>52 </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">31 / 480</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #0851A3; color:inherit; width: 6%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 3 </td> <td>6.4% </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Steady"><img alt="Steady" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/11px-Steady2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/17px-Steady2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/22px-Steady2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 3rd </td> <td>981,105 </td> <td>1.4% </td> <td>8,987,620 </td> <td>13.3% </td> <td style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;" class="table-yes2">Governing coalition </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/2009_Japanese_general_election" title="2009 Japanese general election">2009</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Akihiro_Ota" title="Akihiro Ota">Akihiro Ota</a> </td> <td>51 </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">21 / 480</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #0851A3; color:inherit; width: 4%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 10 </td> <td>4.3% </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Steady"><img alt="Steady" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/11px-Steady2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/17px-Steady2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/22px-Steady2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 3rd </td> <td>782,984 </td> <td>1.11% </td> <td>8,054,007 </td> <td>11.45% </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-no2">Opposition </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/2012_Japanese_general_election" title="2012 Japanese general election">2012</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Natsuo_Yamaguchi" title="Natsuo Yamaguchi">Natsuo Yamaguchi</a> </td> <td>54 </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">31 / 480</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #0851A3; color:inherit; width: 6%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 10 </td> <td>6.4% </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 4th </td> <td>885,881 </td> <td>1.49% </td> <td>7,116,474 </td> <td>11.90% </td> <td style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;" class="table-yes2">Governing coalition </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="12"><b>Komeito era</b> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/2014_Japanese_general_election" title="2014 Japanese general election">2014</a> </th> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Natsuo_Yamaguchi" title="Natsuo Yamaguchi">Natsuo Yamaguchi</a> </td> <td>51 </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">35 / 475</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #F95580; color:inherit; width: 7%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 4 </td> <td>7.3% </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Steady"><img alt="Steady" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/11px-Steady2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/17px-Steady2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/22px-Steady2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 4th </td> <td>765,390 </td> <td>1.45% </td> <td>7,314,236 </td> <td>13.71% </td> <td style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;" class="table-yes2">Governing coalition </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/2017_Japanese_general_election" title="2017 Japanese general election">2017</a> </th> <td>53 </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">29 / 465</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #F95580; color:inherit; width: 6%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 6 </td> <td>6.2% </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Steady"><img alt="Steady" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/11px-Steady2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/17px-Steady2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/22px-Steady2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 4th </td> <td>832,453 </td> <td>1.50% </td> <td>6,977,712 </td> <td>12.51% </td> <td style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;" class="table-yes2">Governing coalition </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/2021_Japanese_general_election" title="2021 Japanese general election">2021</a> </th> <td>53 </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">32 / 465</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #F95580; color:inherit; width: 7%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 3 </td> <td>6.8% </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Steady"><img alt="Steady" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/11px-Steady2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/17px-Steady2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/22px-Steady2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 4th </td> <td>872,931 </td> <td>1.52% </td> <td>7,114,282 </td> <td>12.38% </td> <td style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;" class="table-yes2">Governing coalition </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/2024_Japanese_general_election" title="2024 Japanese general election">2024</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Keiichi_Ishii" title="Keiichi Ishii">Keiichi Ishii</a> </td> <td>50 </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">24 / 465</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #F95580; color:inherit; width: 5%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 8 </td> <td>5.2% </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 6th </td> <td>730,401 </td> <td>1.35% </td> <td>5,964,415 </td> <td>10.93% </td> <td style="background:#FFB; color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-partial">Governing minority </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="House_of_Councillors">House of Councillors</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Komeito&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: House of Councillors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <caption><a href="/wiki/House_of_Councillors" title="House of Councillors">House of Councillors</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th rowspan="2">Election </th> <th rowspan="2">Leader </th> <th colspan="2">Seats </th> <th colspan="2">Nationwide<br />(PR votes since 1983) </th> <th colspan="2">Prefecture </th> <th rowspan="2">Status </th></tr> <tr> <th>Total<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>d<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th>Contested </th> <th>Number </th> <th>% </th> <th>Number </th> <th>% </th></tr> <tr> <td colspan="9"><b>Komei era</b> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/1995_Japanese_House_of_Councillors_election" title="1995 Japanese House of Councillors election">1995</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Tomio_Fujii" title="Tomio Fujii">Tomio Fujii</a> </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">11 / 252</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #F95580; color:inherit; width: 4%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">0 / 126</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #F95580; color:inherit; width: 0%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td colspan="4"><i>Did not participate in election</i> </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-no2">Minority </td></tr> <tr> <th rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/1998_Japanese_House_of_Councillors_election" title="1998 Japanese House of Councillors election">1998</a> </th> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Toshiko_Hamayotsu" title="Toshiko Hamayotsu">Toshiko Hamayotsu</a> </td> <td rowspan="2"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">22 / 252</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #F95580; color:inherit; width: 9%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td rowspan="2"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">9 / 126</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #F95580; color:inherit; width: 7%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td rowspan="2">7,748,301 </td> <td rowspan="2">13.80% </td> <td rowspan="2">1,843,479 </td> <td rowspan="2">3.30% </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-no2">Minority (until 1999) </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;" class="table-yes2">Governing majority (since 1999) </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="9"><b>New Komeito era</b> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/2001_Japanese_House_of_Councillors_election" title="2001 Japanese House of Councillors election">2001</a> </th> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Takenori_Kanzaki" title="Takenori Kanzaki">Takenori Kanzaki</a> </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">23 / 247</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #0851A3; color:inherit; width: 9%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">13 / 121</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #0851A3; color:inherit; width: 11%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td>8,187,804 </td> <td>14.96% </td> <td>3,468,664 </td> <td>6.38% </td> <td style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;" class="table-yes2">Governing majority </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/2004_Japanese_House_of_Councillors_election" title="2004 Japanese House of Councillors election">2004</a> </th> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">24 / 242</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #0851A3; color:inherit; width: 10%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">11 / 121</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #0851A3; color:inherit; width: 9%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td>8,621,265 </td> <td>15.41% </td> <td>2,161,764 </td> <td>3.85% </td> <td style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;" class="table-yes2">Governing majority </td></tr> <tr> <th rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/2007_Japanese_House_of_Councillors_election" title="2007 Japanese House of Councillors election">2007</a> </th> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Akihiro_Ota" title="Akihiro Ota">Akihiro Ota</a> </td> <td rowspan="2"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">20 / 242</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #0851A3; color:inherit; width: 8%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td rowspan="2"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">9 / 121</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #0851A3; color:inherit; width: 7%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td rowspan="2">7,765,329 </td> <td rowspan="2">13.18% </td> <td rowspan="2">3,534,672 </td> <td rowspan="2">5.96% </td> <td style="background:#FFB; color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-partial">Governing minority (until 2009) </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-no2">Minority (since 2009) </td></tr> <tr> <th rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/2010_Japanese_House_of_Councillors_election" title="2010 Japanese House of Councillors election">2010</a> </th> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Natsuo_Yamaguchi" title="Natsuo Yamaguchi">Natsuo Yamaguchi</a> </td> <td rowspan="2"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">19 / 242</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #0851A3; color:inherit; width: 8%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td rowspan="2"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">9 / 121</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #0851A3; color:inherit; width: 7%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td rowspan="2">7,639,432 </td> <td rowspan="2">13.07% </td> <td rowspan="2">2,265,818 </td> <td rowspan="2">3.88% </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-no2">Minority (until 2012) </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:#FFB; color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-partial">Governing minority(since 2012) </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/2013_Japanese_House_of_Councillors_election" title="2013 Japanese House of Councillors election">2013</a> </th> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">20 / 242</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #0851A3; color:inherit; width: 8%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">11 / 121</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #0851A3; color:inherit; width: 9%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td>7,568,082 </td> <td>14.22% </td> <td>2,724,447 </td> <td>5.13% </td> <td style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;" class="table-yes2">Governing majority </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="9"><b>Komeito era</b> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/2016_Japanese_House_of_Councillors_election" title="2016 Japanese House of Councillors election">2016</a> </th> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Natsuo_Yamaguchi" title="Natsuo Yamaguchi">Natsuo Yamaguchi</a> </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">25 / 242</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #F95580; color:inherit; width: 10%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">14 / 121</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #F95580; color:inherit; width: 12%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td>7,572,960 </td> <td>13.52% </td> <td>4,263,422 </td> <td>7.54% </td> <td style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;" class="table-yes2">Governing majority </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/2019_Japanese_House_of_Councillors_election" title="2019 Japanese House of Councillors election">2019</a> </th> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">28 / 245</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #F95580; color:inherit; width: 11%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">14 / 124</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #F95580; color:inherit; width: 11%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td>6,536,336 </td> <td>13.05% </td> <td>3,913,359 </td> <td>7.77% </td> <td style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;" class="table-yes2">Governing majority </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/2022_Japanese_House_of_Councillors_election" title="2022 Japanese House of Councillors election">2022</a> </th> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">27 / 248</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #F95580; color:inherit; width: 11%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">13 / 125</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #F95580; color:inherit; width: 10%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td>6,181,432 </td> <td>11.66% </td> <td>3,600,490 </td> <td>6.77% </td> <td style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;" class="table-yes2">Governing majority </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Komeito&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Japan" title="Politics of Japan">Politics of Japan</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Literature">Literature</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Komeito&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Literature"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Ehrhardt, George, Axel Klein, Levi McLaughlin and Steven R. Reed (2014) (Eds.): Kōmeitō – Politics and Religion in Japan. Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley</li> <li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon 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class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Komeito&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.komei.or.jp/about/outline/">"党概要"</a> [Party Overview]. <i>Komeito</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Because of this political strength, the Liberal Democratic Party has in recent years included the moderate to socially conservative Komeito Party in coalition governments.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Japan&rft.pages=168&rft.pub=ABC-CLIO&rft.date=2009&rft.isbn=9781598841626&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DFox9YR80V7sC%26q%3Dsocial%2Bconservative%2BKomeito%26pg%3DPA168&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKomeito" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><div><ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://asahi.gakujo.ne.jp/common_sense/morning_paper/detail/id=2324">"今さら聞けない?! 「保守」「リベラル」ってなんだ？"</a> [Can't you ask about them now ?! 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">15 May</span> 2020</span>. <q>Natsuo Yamaguchi, the low-profile leader of the centrist Komeito party</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Financial+Times&rft.atitle=Coalition+partner+keeps+Japan%27s+Abe+in+power+%E2%80%94+and+in+check&rft.date=2017-10-17&rft.aulast=Harding&rft.aufirst=Robin&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcontent%2Ffeed704c-b31e-11e7-a398-73d59db9e399&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKomeito" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul></div></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMetraux1996" class="citation cs2">Metraux, Daniel A. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">28 July</span> 2019</span>. <q>... <span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">結党以来のスローガン『<b>大衆とともに</b>』の精神こそ、</span></span> ...</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=komei.or.jp&rft.atitle=%E5%85%AC%E6%98%8E%E5%85%9A&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.komei.or.jp%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKomeito" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-local_assemblies-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-local_assemblies_10-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.soumu.go.jp/senkyo/senkyo_s/data/syozoku/ichiran.html">party membership statistics for chief executives and assembly members in prefectures and municipalities</a>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.soumu.go.jp/main_content/000938138.pdf">Prefectural and local assembly members and governors/mayors by political party as of 31 December 2023</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2021/12/03/the-hidden-power-of-komeito-on-japanese-politics/">"The hidden power of Komeito on Japanese politics"</a>. <a href="/wiki/East_Asia_Forum" title="East Asia Forum">East Asia Forum</a>. 3 December 2021<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">26 January</span> 2022</span>. <q>Observers can expect Kishida to avoid difficult debates over security policy, expand social welfare spending, and consider only limited social reforms to satisfy Komeito.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=The+hidden+power+of+Komeito+on+Japanese+politics&rft.pub=East+Asia+Forum&rft.date=2021-12-03&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eastasiaforum.org%2F2021%2F12%2F03%2Fthe-hidden-power-of-komeito-on-japanese-politics%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKomeito" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREF三訂版,世界大百科事典内言及" class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">三訂版,世界大百科事典内言及, デジタル大辞泉,精選版日本国語大辞典,日本大百科全書(ニッポニカ),改訂新版世界大百科事典,百科事典マイペディア,ブリタニカ国際大百科事典小項目事典,知恵蔵,山川日本史小辞典改訂新版,旺文社日本史事典. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%85%AC%E6%98%8E%E5%85%9A-63237#E6.97.A5.E6.9C.AC.E5.A4.A7.E7.99.BE.E7.A7.91.E5.85.A8.E6.9B.B8.28.E3.83.8B.E3.83.83.E3.83.9D.E3.83.8B.E3.82.AB.29">"公明党(コウメイトウ)とは？意味や使い方"</a>. <i>コトバンク</i> (in Japanese)<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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InterVarsity Press. p. 479. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8308-3970-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8308-3970-4"><bdi>978-0-8308-3970-4</bdi></a>. <q>The Komeito severed its organizational ties to SG in 1970, but has nonetheless remaind the political arm of Sokka Gakkai in Japan</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Neighboring+Faiths%3A+A+Christian+Introduction+to+World+Religions&rft.pages=479&rft.pub=InterVarsity+Press&rft.date=2012-10-22&rft.isbn=978-0-8308-3970-4&rft.aulast=Corduan&rft.aufirst=Winfried&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DYba83tvjvZEC%26pg%3DPA479&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKomeito" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-61"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-61">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPalmer2012" class="citation book cs1">Palmer, A. 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Springer Science & Business Media. p. 13. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-94-010-2996-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-94-010-2996-4"><bdi>978-94-010-2996-4</bdi></a>. <q>even today, the Clean Government Party can hardly be called more than the "political arm" of Soka Gakkai</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Buddhist+Politics%3A+Japan%27s+Clean+Government+Party&rft.pages=13&rft.pub=Springer+Science+%26+Business+Media&rft.date=2012-12-06&rft.isbn=978-94-010-2996-4&rft.aulast=Palmer&rft.aufirst=A.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DZ7iLBQAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPA13&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKomeito" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-62"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-62">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRichNotoyaUeno2024" class="citation news cs1">Rich, Motoko; Notoya, Kiuko; Ueno, Hisako (26 October 2024). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/26/world/asia/japan-election.html">"For First Time in Decades, Japan Votes in a Knife-Edge Election"</a>. <i>The New York Times</i>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">27 October</span> 2024</span>. <q>...Komeito, a political affiliate of Soka Gakkai, a Buddhist sect.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=For+First+Time+in+Decades%2C+Japan+Votes+in+a+Knife-Edge+Election&rft.date=2024-10-26&rft.aulast=Rich&rft.aufirst=Motoko&rft.au=Notoya%2C+Kiuko&rft.au=Ueno%2C+Hisako&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2024%2F10%2F26%2Fworld%2Fasia%2Fjapan-election.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKomeito" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Okuyama_2010-63"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Okuyama_2010_63-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFOkuyama2010" class="citation journal cs1">Okuyama, Michiaki (Spring 2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150226023948/http://www.politicsandreligionjournal.com/images/pdf_files/srpski/godina4_broj1/6%20-%20okuyama%20michiaki.pdf">"Soka Gakkai As a Challenge to Japanese Society and Politics"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i>Politics and Religion</i>. <b>IV</b> (1): 84. 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style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a class="mw-selflink selflink"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:white">Komeito</span></a></div></th></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2" style="background:#F95580;color:white;"><div>as known as New Komei Party, Komei, New Peace Party, Reimei Club, & New Komeito</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#F95580;color:white;;width:1%">Leaders</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/K%C5%8Dji_Harashima" title="Kōji Harashima">Harashima</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Takehisa_Tsuji" title="Takehisa Tsuji">Tsuji</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yoshikatsu_Takeiri" title="Yoshikatsu Takeiri">Takeiri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Junya_Yano" title="Junya Yano">Yano</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K%C5%8Dshir%C5%8D_Ishida" title="Kōshirō Ishida">Ishida</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tomio_Fujii" title="Tomio Fujii">Fujii</a></li> <li> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Toshiko_Hamayotsu" title="Toshiko Hamayotsu">Hamayotsu</a> <sup>Komei</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Takenori_Kanzaki" title="Takenori Kanzaki">Kanzaki</a> <sup>New Peace Party</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kazuyoshi_Shirahama" title="Kazuyoshi Shirahama">Shirahama</a> <sup>Reimei Club</sup></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Takenori_Kanzaki" title="Takenori Kanzaki">Kanzaki</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akihiro_Ota" title="Akihiro Ota">Ota</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Natsuo_Yamaguchi" title="Natsuo Yamaguchi">Yamaguchi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keiichi_Ishii" title="Keiichi Ishii">Ishii</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tetsuo_Saito" title="Tetsuo Saito">Saito</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#F95580;color:white;;width:1%">Preceding parties</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/K%C5%8Dmeit%C5%8D_(1962%E2%80%931998)" title="Kōmeitō (1962–1998)">Kōmeitō (1962)/Clean Government Party</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2" style="background:#F95580;color:white;"><div><i>Italics</i> denote acting leader.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Political_parties_in_Japan_23x15px&#124;border_&#124;alt=Japan&#124;link=Japan531" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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title="Japan"><img alt="Japan" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Japan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Japan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Japan.svg/45px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span></div></th></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div>Bracketed numbers indicate numbers of seats in the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Representatives_(Japan)" title="House of Representatives (Japan)">House of Representatives</a> (Lower House) of the <a href="/wiki/National_Diet" title="National Diet">National Diet</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center;">Officially recognized<br /> political parties</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" 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