The is an established national
green party
A green party is a formally organized political party based on the principles of green politics, such as social justice, environmentalism and nonviolence.
Greens believe that these issues are inherently related to one another as a foundation ...
in
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
.
After the electoral success of Green activist
Ryuhei Kawada in the
2007 House of Councillors election, the local green political network
Rainbow and Greens
Rainbow and Greens (虹と緑, ''Niji to Midori'') was a Green political organization in Japan from 1998–2008. It was a nationwide network of prefectural assembly members, usually running on local platforms variously named as "living citizen n ...
had reportedly decided to dissolve itself and merge with the Japan Greens in December 2007. The two precedent organizations dissolved themselves and relaunched as Greens Japan, a political organization in late 2008, under its former Japanese name, ''Midori no Mirai'' (みどりの未来 - "green future").
History
The party was founded in July 2012 and held its first general assembly in that same month.
Representation
The party has a number of elected city council members/councillors in towns and cities across Japan. On the 22 November 2010,
Kazumi Inamura
is a Japanese politician. She has been mayor of Amagasaki since 13 December 2010. She is member of the Greens Japan political party and was its co-president from 2008 to 2010. She was a student at the University of Kobe during the 1995 Great Ha ...
became the first popularly elected Greens Japan Mayor, in the city of
Amagasaki
file:Amagasaki Castle Tenshu 20181125.jpg, 270px, Amagasaki Castle
file:Amagasaki city center area Aerial photograph.1985.jpg, 270px, Aerial view of Amagasaki city center
file:Amagasaki st03s3000.jpg, 270px, Amagasaki Station
is an industrial Citi ...
. As well as being the youngest mayor elected in Japan’s history at the age of 38, she is also the first popularly elected female mayor of the city. She won the mayoralty with 54% of the vote.
Party establishment
On 28 July 2012, the party was officially re-established under its new name by local assembly members and civic groups to run in the
Upper House
An upper house is one of two Debate chamber, chambers of a bicameralism, bicameral legislature, the other chamber being the lower house.''Bicameralism'' (1997) by George Tsebelis The house formally designated as the upper house is usually smalle ...
election. Two of the core policies of the party at launch were to reduce, and ultimately terminate Japan's nuclear power generation, and oppose the nation's entry into the
Trans-Pacific Partnership
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), or Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, was a highly contested proposed trade agreement between 12 Pacific Rim economies, Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singa ...
(TPP).
See also
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Energy in Japan
Energy in Japan refers to energy and electricity production, consumption, import and export in Japan. The country's primary energy consumption was 477.6 Mtoe in 2011, a decrease of 5% over the previous year.
The country lacks significant do ...
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Environmental issues in Japan
Environmental pollution in Japan has accompanied industrialization since the Meiji period. One of the earliest cases was the copper poisoning caused by drainage from the Ashio Copper Mine in Tochigi Prefecture, beginning as early as 1878. Repeate ...
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Nuclear power in Japan
Prior to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, Japan had generated 30% of its electrical power from nuclear reactors and planned to increase that share to 40%. Nuclear power energy was a national strategic priority in Japan.
, of the 54 n ...
References
External links
Midori no Tō (Greens Japan)(official website)
;News articles
New Green Party formed in Japan/Group seeks to reflect anti-nuclear, environmental, pro-democracy movements (Article in Green Pages, newspaper of the Green Party of the United States. September 2012).
2008 establishments in Japan
2012 establishments in Japan
Anti-nuclear organizations
Environmentalism in Japan
Global Greens member parties
Green parties in Asia
Political parties in Japan
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