the Liberal Party and the Japan Democratic Party, just as leftwing groups formed the Socialist Party. They led Japan after the war, when conservatives in the U.S.-occupied country were looking to ...

In 1960, Otoya Yamaguchi assassinated the head of Japan's Socialist Party. The killing, with a sword, was captured on live television and was widely condemned. But the Proud Boys and other far ...

Until recently, however, the Japanese Socialist Party was filled with hope for the future. Its position was much stronger than in the prewar era; after a sharp setback in the 1949 election, the party ...

Under the 1955 system, characterized by conservative-reformist standoffs between the LDP and the former Japan Socialist Party, the gaps in this political structure had not yet been exposed.

It was in this mood that they voted, and their votes were as much against the pro-Peking direction of the Japanese Socialist Party as they were for the conservatism of Sato. Japan feels that it is ...

The Japan Socialist Party, the largest opposition party at the time, refused to participate in the commission, which it saw as a thinly disguised attempt to endorse revision. In the end ...

Various conservative factions merged to form the LDP and thwart the rise of Japan’s Socialist party, which was sympathetic to the communist cause and, according to Washington, had ties to Moscow.

the Liberal Party and the Japan Democratic Party, just as leftwing groups formed the Socialist Party. They led Japan after the war, when conservatives in the U.S.-occupied country were looking to ...