It combined a conservative ideology with an ecologist platform, forcing out a number of non-ecologist members to join the Democratic Party's Ryoun-kai faction.
The 2009 election saw a massive defeat for the ruling LDP and brought the opposition DPJ to power for the first time.
1998: The party merged with the Good Governance Party (Minseito), the New Fraternity Party (Shinto-Yuai) and the Democratic Reform Party (Minshu-Kaikaku-Rengo) under the name Democratic Party of Japan (Nihon Minshuto, 民主党)
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government originally planned to complete this move by 2012, but Democratic Party of Japan legislators cut the budget for the move in 2010; the budget was reinstated in 2012 and the move is currently expected to be complete by 2018.
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Kawasaki is a long-time rival of Hiroshi Nakai of the Democratic Party of Japan, and the two have repeatedly challenged each other for seats representing Mie in the Diet.
In the mayoral election held on June 22, 2008, Yutaka Yano defeated two independent opponents, supported by the Liberal Democratic Party and Democratic Party of Japan, to win a fourth term.
The liberal conservative LDP was in power from 1955 to 2009, except for a very short-lived coalition government formed from the likeminded opposition parties in 1993; the largest opposition party was the social liberal Democratic Party of Japan in the late 1990s and late 2000s.
A vigorous supporter of former Liberal Democratic Party Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and fierce critic of former Democratic Party of Japan Prime Minister Naoto Kan, Motoya is linked with right-wing political causes in Japan, and views the country's involvement in World War II in a generally positive light.
Ichirō Murakami had some friends in politics, Shingo Nishimura, former deputy of the Democratic Party of Japan and later of the New Renaissance Party, known for being highly critical of North Korea.
In September 2009, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) announced the cancellation of the dam construction, keeping to their campaign promise for the 2009 general election.
He represented Democratic Party as a proportional candidate in the Summer 2010 House of Councillors election but lost.
According to a Gay Japan News 2009 election questionare, he supported legalization of gay marriage in Japan and indicated a desire to put support for gay rights into Democratic Party of Japan's party platform.
Other members of the group include the current PM Yasuo Fukuda; current Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba; a former leader of the Democratic Party of Japan Seiji Maehara; Ex-Defense Ministers Fumio Kyuma, Tokuichiro Tamazawa, Fukushiro Nukaga, Tsutomu Kawara and Gen Nakatani; Ex-Agriculture Ministers Tsutomu Takebe and Norihiko Akagi.
Kenji Yamaoka (born 1943), Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan
Susumu Yanase (born 1950), Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan