This is a list of members of the Diet of Japan. The Diet has two chambers: the
House of Councillors
The is the upper house of the National Diet of Japan. The House of Representatives is the lower house. The House of Councillors is the successor to the pre-war House of Peers. If the two houses disagree on matters of the budget, treaties, or ...
(upper house) and the
House of Representatives
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(lower house). Councillors serve six year terms, with half being elected every three years. Representatives serve terms of up to four years, but the House of Representatives can be dissolved, causing a shorter term (
snap election
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Generally, a snap election in a parliamentary system (the dissolution of parliament) is called to capitalize on an unusual electoral opportunity or to ...
).
House of Representatives
Composition
List of members by parliamentary group and constituency. There are usually translations and abbreviations for used on the English pages of the House of Representatives website,
* LDP
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Kōmeitō
, formerly New Komeito and abbreviated NKP, is a conservative political party in Japan founded by lay members of the Buddhist Japanese new religious movement Soka Gakkai in 1964. Since 2012, it has served in government as the junior coalit ...
* CDP
* DPFP
* JCP
* Nippon Ishin
* Group of Independents
* SDP
* Kibo
* Independents
Notes:
* Not all members of a parliamentary group are necessarily members of the associated party/parties if any, and vice versa. For example, the Speaker and Vice-Speaker of the House of Representatives are independents in terms of parliamentary group membership, but not independents in terms of party membership.
* The count of terms as given by the House of Representatives follows the usual way of counting them in Japan by number of won elections ''(tōsen kaisū)'' which is not necessarily identical to election periods of the House of Representatives. For example, former member
Nobutaka Machimura
was a Japanese politician. He was a member of the House of Representatives of Japan and a member of the Liberal Democratic Party.List of caucuses are transcribed to Latin here:
* LDP
*
Kōmeitō
, formerly New Komeito and abbreviated NKP, is a conservative political party in Japan founded by lay members of the Buddhist Japanese new religious movement Soka Gakkai in 1964. Since 2012, it has served in government as the junior coalit ...
Reiwa
is the current Japanese era name, era of Japan's official calendar. It began on 1 May 2019, the day on which Emperor Akihito's elder son, Naruhito, Enthronement of the Japanese emperor, ascended the throne as the 126th Emperor of Japan. The ...
* SDP
* PPPNHK
* Independents
Notes:
* Not all members of a caucus are also members of the affiliated party, and sometimes even some members of a party are not member of the affiliated caucus.
* The N→S column allows to sort by prefecture from North to South in the order generally used in Japan (also used as number identifier for prefectures P-##in
ISO 3166-2
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* Due to a 2015 reapportionment, some districts are represented by an uneven number of members until the regular 2019 election, when it becomes effective in both halves.