Inaugural Meeting of Gambare Nippon! Zenkokukoudouiinkai

(''literally'': Hang In, Japan! National Action Committee), usually abbreviated to , is a Japanese

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nationalist Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state. As a movement, nationalism tends to promote the interests of a particular nation (as in a group of people), Smith, Anthony. ''Nationalism: The ...

group founded on February 2, 2010. One of the founders was right-wing filmmaker and playwright

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. The inaugural chair was former Chief of Staff of

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. As of March 2015 he was no longer the head of the group.

Activities

Anti-Chinese government rally on 2 October 2010 at Shibuya 08

Ganbare Nippon has participated in a number of demonstrations and actions concerning

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issues.

Protests against Democratic Party of Japan

In January 2011 the group organized a protest against the ruling

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. Around 1900 people joined the event calling on the DPJ to step down. Several lawmakers attended, including

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, head of the Sunrise Party of Japan.

Protest against Yomiuri Shimbun

In January 2012 it protested against the conservative

Yomiuri Shimbun The (lit. ''Reading-selling Newspaper'' or ''Selling by Reading Newspaper'') is a Japanese newspaper published in Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka, and other major Japanese cities. It is one of the five major newspapers in Japan; the other four are t ...

newspaper. The Yomiuri had editorialized in favor of the Imperial succession being opened to female members of the Imperial family.

Senkaku Islands flag-raising

Following a

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to the disputed

Senkaku Islands The are a group of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea, administered by Japan. They are located northeast of Taiwan, east of China, west of Okinawa Island, and north of the southwestern end of the Ryukyu Islands. They are known in main ...

by a group of 14 Hong Kong pro-China activists, five of whom went ashore, who were deported by Japan without being charged, Ganbare Nippon arranged an unauthorized visit to the Senkakus. About 150 people on about 20 boats left

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and sailed to the island to hold a service for Japanese who died near the Senkakus during

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. After the service ten people swam ashore, five of those who swam ashore were from the organizing group and five were local assembly members from

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and Arakawa Wards in Tokyo, and

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. They raised several

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flags after landing. Tamogami said: "With the Chinese activists just having landed, this is a way of telling them not to mess around. We hope to convey to both China and to Japanese people, through the media, or whatever means, that the Senkakus are our territory.” The flotilla arrival at the archipelago set off anti-Japanese rallies in more than 25 Chinese cities, Chinese protestors overturned Japanese-branded cars and smashed windows of Japanese-themed businesses.

Protest against Chinese protests

Japan formally nationalized the three Senkaku islands that had been held in the ownership of Kunioki Kurihara. Substantial Chinese protests followed, and on 18 September 2012, Ganbare Nippon organized an anti-Chinese counterprotest in

which was attended by about 50 people.

Protest against homosexuality

On 10 March 2015, Ganbare Nippon organized a protest in Shibuya against

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, with slogans such as "Normal love is between a man and a woman" and "LGBT ruins society".

Participating in Elections

Members of Ganbare Nippon ran in the

2021 Japanese general election General elections were held in Japan on 31 October 2021, as required by the constitution. Voting took place in all constituencies in order to elect members to the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet. As the constitutio ...

under the banner of ''Kunimori Conservative Party'' (新党くにもり), fielding two candidates. In the

Wakayama 3rd district Wakayama 3rd district is a constituency of the House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It is located in Wakayama Prefecture and consists of Arida, Gobo, Shingu, and Tanabe cities and the Arida, Hidaka, Higashimu ...

, Nana Honma received 19,034 votes (12.83%), while in the

Chiba 10th district , the House of Representatives of Japan is elected from a combination of multi-member districts and single-member districts, a method called Parallel voting. Currently, 176 members are elected from 11 multi-member districts (called proportional r ...

Mari Azusa received 10,272 votes (5.8%).

References

External links

Official webpage

Kunimori Conservative Party
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