The Assembly to Energize Japan, in

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was a Japanese political party. It was formed on 1 January 2015 by

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Kota Matsuda is a Japanese entrepreneur, enterprise manager, politician from Tokyo formerly belonging to Your Party until it was disbanded in December 2014. He founded The Assembly to Energize Japan in January 2015 and is the party leader. Career Matsu ...

, formerly of the now-defunct

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and Antonio Inoki, formerly of the

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Overview

After the official dissolution of

on 28 November 2014,

and three others, along with former

member Antonio Inoki resigned from their respective parties and formed a parliamentary group on 18 December. The party was officially launched on 1 January 2015. After the 2016 election, AEJ had only two remaining members of the Diet, and the House of Councillors caucus was dissolved by the first post-election Diet session: Antonio Inoki joined the Independent Club (''Mushozoku Club'', 無所属クラブ), another small YP successor, and became an independent. (Inoki later became an independent and sits with the joint DPFP- LP House of Councillors caucus in 2019, Yamaguchi joined

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in 2019.) The party was officially disbanded on December 10, 2018.

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