Banchō Seisaku Kenkyūjo
(Japanese language, Japanese: 番町政策研究所 lit. ''Banchō Policy Research Institute'') was a former faction of the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), Liberal Democratic Party which formed in 1956 and later merged into the Shikōkai faction in 2017. Its abbreviation was Banchō-ken (番町研), and its popular nicknames, as with other LDP factions, shifted depending on who was the factional leader at the time. History Formation The faction's ideas historically descended from the pre-war Constitutional Democratic Party (Japan), Constitutional Democratic Party and the Centrism, centrist post-war National Cooperative Party. The latter group eventually merged into Kaishintō, Reformist Party (''Kaishintō''), headed by Mamoru Shigemitsu. After the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), Liberal Democratic Party formed in 1955 as a big tent, The ''Kaishintō'''s descendants within the LDP were a part of the so-called "conservative anti-mainstream" (保守傍流) segment of the p ...
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Taro Aso
Taro () (''Colocasia esculenta)'' is a root vegetable. It is the most widely cultivated species of several plants in the family Araceae that are used as vegetables for their corms, leaves, and petioles. Taro corms are a food staple in African, Oceanic, and South Asian cultures (similar to yams). Taro is believed to be one of the earliest cultivated plants. Names and etymology The English term ''taro'' was borrowed from the Māori language when Captain Cook first observed ''Colocasia'' plantations there in 1769. The form ''taro'' or ''talo'' is widespread among Polynesian languages:*''talo'': taro (''Colocasia esculenta'')
– entry in the ''Polynesian Lexicon Project Online'' (Pollex). in Tahitian; in < ...
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