Genzei Nippon

Genzei Nippon (減税日本, lit. "Tax Reduction Japan") is a regional political party based in Nagoya, Japan and led by the mayor of Nagoya, Takashi Kawamura. The party was formed by Kawamura in April 2010. After briefly holding several seats in the national legislature, the party merged at the national level with the Tomorrow Party of Japan in November 2012. Genzei Nippon remained a separate party at the regional level and has been active within Aichi Prefecture. As well as Kawamura, the party has twelve members serving on the Nagoya city council.

The party was founded by Takashi Kawamura, then the mayor of Nagoya, and registered with the Aichi Prefectural electoral commission on 26 April 2010. At a press conference held on the same day, Kawamura emphasized the point that the greatest support that politicians can provide to citizens is a reduction in taxes.

The party first gained representation in the national Diet in May 2011 when Yuko Sato, the representative for the Aichi 1st district in the House of Representatives, officially resigned from the ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ). Sato had lodged her resignation papers with the party in March in order to provide support to Genzei Nippon's candidates in the Nagoya city council election, but her application was put on hold while DPJ officials considered expelling instead.

Two more DPJ members of the House of Representatives, Koki Kobayashi from the Tokyo proportional representation block and Toshiaki Koizumi of the Ibaraki 3rd district, left the DPJ to join Genzei Nippon in August 2012. On 31 August the three representatives joined with fellow DPJ defector Tomoyuki Taira to form the "Genzei Nippon-Heian" voting block within the House of Representatives, with Koizumi as the leader.

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